Subject: Re: _High_ CPU usage while routing (mostly) small UDP packets

From: Karsten Desler <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 01:20:12 +0100

Bernd Eckenfels <[email-masked]> wrote:
> In article <[email-masked]> you wrote:
> > Removing the iptables rules helps reducing the load a little, but the
> > majority of time is still spent somewhere else.
> 
> In handling Interrupts. Are those equally sidtributed on eth0 and eth1?

Yes they are.

Thanks,
 Karsten

           CPU0       CPU1       
  0:  117199776  133677244    IO-APIC-edge  timer
  1:          0          9    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
  8:          0          4    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
  9:          0          0   IO-APIC-level  acpi
169:        139  893669684   IO-APIC-level  eth0
177:  919803109      30665   IO-APIC-level  eth1
209:     414257     413316   IO-APIC-level  libata
NMI:          0          0 
LOC:  250918849  250918819 
ERR:          0
MIS:          0