Thanks Gary,
I am assuming that the box is not going to push state table info
to the disk (too slow). Thanks for that, they may never have made it
to 1,000,000 but what a sad day if they did. Thanks again.
Wade B
On 9/19/07, Gary Buckmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wade,
>
> FYI, you don't have enough memory to handle 1,000,000 states. When last
> I checked, each state took somewhere between 1k and 3k memory. Having
> your maxstates set to 1,000,000 doesn't hurt, but if you actually open
> up more states than your box can handle, you'll be a sad panda.
>
> -Gary
>
> Wade Blackwell wrote:
> > Thanks Sean,
> > I will give that a try.
> > -W
> >
> > On 9/18/07, Sean Cavanaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Upgrade to 1.2-RC2 first and see if that helps. its based on FreeBSD 6.2 as
> >> opposed to 6.1 that the 1.0 release was on.
> >>
> >> -Sean
> >>
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >>
> >> > Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:57:09 -0700
> >>
> >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> To: [email protected]
> >>> Subject: [pfSense Support] Sluggish network performance
> >>>
> >>> Good morning,
> >>> I am seeing intermittent performance issues, particularly with
> >>> samba traffic, between the LAN and DMZ. The machine PF is running AMD
> >>> Athlon(tm) processor (950.04-MHz 686-class CPU) with a gig of memory.
> >>> The NICS in the box are xl0: 3Com 3c905B-TX, fxp0: Intel 82558
> >>> Pro/100, fxp1: <Intel 82557 Pro/100. and dc0: <ADMtek AN985
> >>> 10/100BaseTX>. PF version is 1.0-RC1. The rulesets on the box are
> >>> almost nothing and the only impacting change is I changed the state to
> >>> 1,000,000 maximum connections (they run allot of nmap scans through
> >>> the box). I know this is a very general issue and there may not be
> >>> enough good information to diagnose it but has anyone seen
> >>> intermittent sluggish samba performance through PF? If so was PF the
> >>> culprit and what did you do to remedy it? The only errors I saw that
> >>> looked related are below. Thanks.
> >>>
> >>> xl0: tx underrun, increasing tx start threshold to 120 bytes
> >>> dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold
> >>> dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Wade Blackwell
> >>> "Women don't want to hear what you think, women want to hear what they
> >>> think---in a deeper voice" Bill Cosby
> >>> "Integrity is often more painful and always more profitable than
> >>> perception management"
> >>>
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