Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>  wrote:
 > Herb Peyerl wrote:
 > > In the meantime, I've replaced the hardware, it's now a P4-2.4Ghz
 > > with 1GB of RAM, and running NetBSD-1.6ZF of Nov 17th. It's now a
 > > single-cpu machine (as opposed to previously being a multi-cpu)
 > > and everything else is bog-standard modulo running altq with 
 > > cbq at 512kb/sec.
 > 
 > I wonder if altq might be the culprit? Any chance to run without
 > altq for a while?

Last time I left altqd turned off accidentally, it cost me $1600 in
two weeks for bandwidth.

So, not really.  The machine is in a colo in NY (far away from me)
so I don't have many options.