24hr performance degradation

Following step in the Wiki https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/CrossProject:Integration_Group:Performance_Test

With "dropAllPacketsRPC on" there is a noticeable performance degradation.

Ever 30 minutes cbench is ran (cbench -c $controllerip -p 6633 -m 10000 -l 10 -s 256 -M 100000 -w 1).

(Thu Jul 17 07:53:43 PDT 2014)30 minutes after starting controller min/max/avg is 21434.08/22523.66/21841.65
(Thu Jul 17 11:53:43 PDT 2014) 4:30hr after starting controller min/max/avg is 19243.97/20008.8/19744.69
(Thu Jul 17 19:53:43 PDT 2014) 12:30hr after starting controller min/max/avg is 14169.36/14786.94/14444.8
(Fri Jul 18 07:23:43 PDT 2014) 24:00hr after starting controller min/max/avg is 10534.49/10943.67/10767.37

See CSV file for detail report.
and PNG file for the visual report.