RE: [Devil-Linux-discuss] dl firewall slow

[Dean N. <di...@ti...>]

> please advise.
> i have an amd 333 with 96 megs ram. one realtek nic and one 3com nic.
> it get everything to work (just a firewall) it boots and I can get to the
> internet. then I noticed that in downloading my system slowed way down so
i
> experimented. I hooked my linksys back up and downloaded the newest dl
> (beta) and had a 300K download. with the DL firewall the best i could get
is
> 30K. thats way too much of a hit. is there some settings I could use..
> I hade to use the 486 version as the 686 just keeped rebooting.
> thansk for the help

I have a 300Mhz CELERON with 64MB of ram and I have no trouble getting 300KB
downloads.  I have DL configured with FULL statefull inspection - and
I -never- come close to using anything near the cpu power.  However, the
only other thing I have enabled is Postfix - so no Snort, no SAGATOR (yet),
no Clamav (yet), no Pop3scan (yet), and no DNS caching (yet).

One thing that might be helpful for you is to look at the procinfo that is
always running.  Hit ALT-F8 and you will bring up the procinfo screen
(ALT-F1 takes you back to the "login" screen, and ALT-F10 shows you the
SYSLOG screen).  Look at the user and system numbers while you are trying to
download the ISO image and compare it to what it looks like when nothing is
being downloaded.  (To give you a hint - when nothing is being downloaded
the user and system totals should stay [roughly] constant.  If not - then go
to your login screen, issue the 'top' command and see what is happening!)

Dean Nedelman
TimeLord Consulting