On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:59:42PM +0200, Achim Dreyer wrote: > On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Zill, Greg wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 09:55:42 -0500 > > From: "Zill, Greg" <Greg.Zillat_private> > > To: firewall-wizardsat_private > > Subject: [fw-wiz] RE: Firewall Utilization > > > > Sun e250 with Solaris 2.7 > > Raptor 6.5.3sp1 > > dual 368 CPU, 512 RAM, 1024 swap, 18Gb SCSI > > two bonded t-1 lines > > > > uptime common: 0.05 0.05 0.05 > > .. these are usually load averages for user space processes. The load > average can at best be an indicator that something is terribly wrong. > You should never trust them. > > All major firewall implementations work at kernel level, so these are not > accounted for with the load level! If you want to see what the kernel is > doing go for kernel optimisation tools.. Raptor is an application level proxy firewall, which run in userspace. So load avg using Raptor _IS_ impportant. All major proxy firewall implementations run in userspace. ps: sigh, if people knew the difference between firewalls and firewalls... we'd live in a less dangerous world. -- Bazsi PGP info: KeyID 9AF8D0A9 Fingerprint CD27 CFB0 802C 0944 9CFD 804E C82C 8EB1 _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizardsat_private http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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