> On Sunday 13 June 2004 12:30 pm, lartc@xxxxxx wrote: > >> Hello >> >> Can someone tell me just how intensive netfilter is towards CPU? >> >> Is it posible for 6000 rules with no target set in the FORWARD chain to >> eat up about 60% of my P4 2.4 GHz? > > I would be very surprised at this, however you haven't said what sort of > bandwidth you're shovelling through the machine, and this will clearly > make a difference to the CPU usage. yes - the bandwidth was the issue. thanks for the help.
