> 
> We're doing some stress testing on our server, 

CPU ? Memory ?

> and noticed that when
> we turn PF on, we lose connections and have a drastic reduction in
> performance.
> 
> We used SIEGE for 120 seconds, 50 connections, on req/conn
> 

[snip]

> # --- DEFAULT POLICY
> block log all
> 

What drops are you seeing in the firewall logs for the missing connections ?


Are you monitoring the number of entries in the state table with pfctl -si ?
The default is iirc 10k, a benchmarking tool can easily chew through this. 



Greg


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