[LARTC] Huge system load using HTB

[Arturas Lapiene]

Hello,

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 03:01:48PM +0200, Szymon Miotk wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have some problems with htb performance.
> 
> THE PROBLEM:
> When I load my rules the system load jumps to 100%.
> I was testing it and I am certain that HTB does the mess.
> The server with all iptables rules (including mangling) works well with 
> load about 3%.
> But just as I turn HTB on it starts to crawl.
> The chart can be found here:
> http://mtower.mlyniec.gda.pl/~spam/tst.png
> 
> It's fairly strong machine (P4 2.8 with HT, 1 GB RAM) and it worked with 
> that setup quite well for half a year (system load never exceeded 30-40%).
> 
> I guess I haven't noticed something or the kernel has the bug.

use 2.4.24 kernel, only in 2.4.25 and later kernels it is,
maybe it's a bug, maybe smth else ;-) It would be very nice if somebody
check this and explain ;-)

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Arturas