Re: [webmin-l] webmin iptables module

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Webmin's code for parsing the iptables configuration file is probably
the cause of the this slowness, as it evaluates several perl regular
expressions on each line. Unfortunately, there isn't really any easy way
to speed this up .. 

 - Jamie

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 18:56, Mats Hedlund wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm new to this list.
> I'm using webmin to control my NAT router with RedHat 7.2 and iptables.
> The Router has actually more than 2000 NAT and FORWARD Rules.
> When I'm trying to edit them via the webmin frontend it takes ages (approx.
> 20sec) on a 900MHz PIII Machine to load. As I can see it's not the network
> which is the bottleneck (I started a webrowser local). 
> While the rules are loaded I can see the Perl process is consuming nearly
> 99% of the cpu power.
> I didn't looked at the script which produces the output, but is there any
> change to speed this up?
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Regards,
> Mats
>