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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net>
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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: NAT over 3c59x cards freezes interactivity on 2.6.2
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Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net> wrote:
>
> [2.] DETAILS: Upon upgrading from 2.4.x to 2.6.2, I've noticed that my
>  workstation/NAT box freezes on interactive processes while transfering
>  large files over NAT to other machines on the network. 

Please monitor the system time with top or `vmstat 1'.  Is it excessive?

A kernel profile might tell us what is going on.  See
Documentation/basic_profiling.txt.

If you remove all the netfilter rules, what happens?