Re: PIX 535: High CPU, High-Latency

["Eduardo Tongson" <propolice () gmail com>]

On 10/12/06, Matthew Stansel <matthew.stansel () yale edu> wrote:
> Has anyone discovered and a reliable source of information regarding
> performance or operational parameters for Cisco PIX firewalls? That is,
> acceptable limits for the various resources utilized, CPU, memory,
> interface saturation, etc. Specifically, what are the impacts of high
> CPU utilization on this platform? What are the implications of CPU
> levels exceeding 80-90%.

Should be the same conditions of what you are going to have on a x86
class machine(535 is a PIII 1Ghz?). And the load is mostly interrupt
induced. If i'm not mistaken it will block all incoming connections when
it is fully loaded.

- ed
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