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pengrus

May 28 2005, 09:33 PM

I've been noticing that since our new server admin took over, the iptable has been consuming a lot of CPU power.

Here is a typical stat for our server CPU usage for the last three weeks:

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Top Process %CPU 99.8 /usr/bin/perl -s /etc/iptables.pl
Top Process %CPU 99.6 /usr/bin/perl -s /etc/iptables.pl
Top Process %CPU 99.2 /usr/bin/perl -s /etc/iptables.pl
mailnull 0.12 0.51 0.0
Top Process %CPU 2.0 /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem mailman
Top Process %CPU 1.0 /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem mailman
Top Process %CPU 0.5 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q60m
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Is this normal? Is the iptables using too much CPU power?

Thanks!

eth00

May 28 2005, 09:36 PM

Are you running a script at /etc/iptables because that is not normal.

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