> We've also determined that it's not only situations where ipfw is
> loaded or not loaded that it happens.

I've been thinking about the CP related issue this night (I know, I
better should be sleeping then, can't help it)

I was wondering if calling ipfw so many times could have a serious
impact on the kernel. In the case of having 100users authenticated this
would relate in ipfw being called like 1,6666 times a second for
statistics, etc...

Wouldn't it be better (at least if this could help gain us performance)
to dump the statistics once a minute and calculate everything from the
dump? (less system calls by using a buffer)


J.


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Jonathan De Graeve
Network/System Engineer
Imelda vzw
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