On Monday 17 November 2003 15:01, Ray Leach wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 11:34, Rohit wrote: > > Hi, > > Is it possible to know how much system resources (cpu/memory load) that > > the netfilter module(s) is using? We are using HTB to shape our client > > traffic and there are 4 iptables rule for each client in the mangle > > table. I think it will be helpful to gather such data and graph it using > > mrtg. > > Just remember, iptables is only used to mark the traffic. tc is used to > classify and shape the traffic. Yeah you are right. But iptables must be using some resources(like cpu time etc) to mark the each and every packet. We have around 2-3 Mbps traffice flowing at each interface and I think that does consume some system resources. That is what I want to know about. I guess it sound very foolish now :) regds, Rohit > > > I'm really sorry if someone has already asked about it. > > Thanks a lot. > > > > with regards, > > Rohit Nepali
