MMO's and 100% CPU

[Phuhque]

I play Vanguard and lately I have been getting massive lag to the point of being kicked off the servers. I bring up Firefox on another monitor and I notice that when I am playing my cpu slowly creeps to 100%. It shows 80% User, and 20% system. I try to plan ahead and turn off EVERYTHING in the default rack and it still doesn't help. After 5 minutes or so after leaving the game, the cpu load drops and then when I start the game up again, Untangle bogs down again. If I am turning off everything what is causing the 80% user usage? Where can I look at the specifics on the load, network, and member usages?

Thanx.

[u3b3rg33k]

how much ram do you have ?

[Mathiau]

are you running untangle on the same system your gaming on? it is likely your game using your cpu.


list your computer specifications.

[Phuhque]

I have a dedicated untangle box. It has 1 gig of ram, a 60 gb ide drive. The weird thing is VM staticstics. I have 704016 pageins, 44916524 pagesouts, and 71326100 pagefaults. Now to me, that looks like it would be a memory problem. The swap files are 1999.86 MB total swap space with 0.5MBs used. I rarely exceed 10KB/sec TX speed. The system sees the process being an XP2500+ 1833.216 for systme speed. There are 92 tasks, 22% user, 98% system usage and 1.28, 2.25, 1.87 as my current load average.

I have a dedicated game system which I can't use because of the lag. I have a domain server, a file server, and a main system running. I have a Multimedia system that rarely goes to the internet. I have 2 additional PC's that sometimes go out and 2 Xbox 360's that as of late, have forgotten what current is supposed to do.

I just upgraded (manually) to 7.0 and it has stayed at 100% for the past 2 days that I have been able to monitor it.

[bronzewire]

Is the UT in router or bridge mode? Also, did you disable or make exceptions in Attack Blocker?