Re: iptables --list is very slow

2007-10-15 Thread Mike Bird
On Monday 15 October 2007 16:17, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > I just tried using iptables --list on one of my servers and it took about 4 > minutes for it to list all the rules, pausing several seconds between each > batch of lines. There are a lot of rules, but if all those lines were in a > text file

iptables --list is very slow

2007-10-15 Thread Jonathan Wilson
I just tried using iptables --list on one of my servers and it took about 4 minutes for it to list all the rules, pausing several seconds between each batch of lines. There are a lot of rules, but if all those lines were in a text file it would only take a fraction of a second to cat them. So th