Well I wrote 5-6MB/s (megabytes per second)

I have had no troubles before to push over 9 MB/s through this box. And 
with almost no indication on the CPU meter.

No errors at "Interfaces". Logs shows nothing wierd.

Strange thing is that nothing uses the CPU on top;

$ top
last pid:  1317;  load averages:  0.13,  0.05,  0.01  up 0+00:59:15 
22:59:32
18 processes:  1 running, 17 sleeping

Mem: 11M Active, 4936K Inact, 28M Wired, 8336K Buf, 690M Free
Swap:


   PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
  1313 root        1  -8   10  7824K  7300K piperd   0:00  9.00% php
   132 root        1  96    0  1908K  1664K select   0:02  0.00% snmpd
   123 nobody      1  96    0  1400K  1096K select   0:01  0.00% dnsmasq
   116 root        1  96    0  1372K   972K select   0:01  0.00% syslogd
   111 root        1   8    0  1888K  1448K nanslp   0:01  0.00% ipmon
   805 root        1 106   10  2760K  2264K select   0:00  0.00% racoon
   119 root        1  96    0  2588K  1668K select   0:00  0.00% mini_httpd
    92 root        1  96    0  1808K  1360K select   0:00  0.00% dhclient
   180 root        1   8    0  1236K   724K nanslp   0:00  0.00% minicron
   136 root        1   8    0  1684K  1160K wait     0:00  0.00% sh
   126 root        1   8    0  1380K  1100K nanslp   0:00  0.00% ez-ipupdate
  1317 root        1 109   10  2232K  1376K RUN      0:00  0.00% top
   182 root        1   5    0  1684K  1188K ttyin    0:00  0.00% sh
   238 root        1   8    0  1456K  1092K nanslp   0:00  0.00% msntp
  1316 root        1   8   10  1684K  1128K wait     0:00  0.00% sh
   177 root        1 118    0  2588K  1660K select   0:00  0.00% mini_httpd
   129 root        1  96    0  2300K  1908K select   0:00  0.00% dhcpd
  1315 root        1  -8    0  2588K  1716K piperd   0:00  0.00% mini_httpd

/ Dennis


Chris Buechler wrote:
> On 12/23/06, Dennis Karlsson <dennis at denniskarlsson dot com> wrote:
>> Yes, maybe it's too slow.
>> It's a Pentium 3 900MHz with 768 MB RAM. It has three Intel PRO/1000 and
>> a 802.11b card (will try a 802.11g soon).
>>
> 
> Well that's more than adequate.  I was thinking you were running a low
> end Pentium or a Soekris 4501 (486 133 MHz) or something.
> 
> You should be able to push *way* more than 5-6 Mb through that.  I can
> get more than 15 Mb down, 1.5 Mb up, 3000+ packets per second of
> BitTorrent traffic on a 800 MHz VIA, which isn't nearly as fast as a
> P3 900, and at that it only runs at around 20-25% CPU.
> 
> Any errors showing on any interfaces under Status > Interfaces?
> Anything out of the ordinary in the system logs?  I think you can go
> to exec.php and run 'top' (don't have easy access to a m0n0wall as I'm
> away from home at the moment), what does that show while you have the
> CPU pegged?
> 
> -Chris
> 
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