On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:23:40PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 08:41:42AM -0400, Rodney Dunn wrote: > > While the graph of CPU vs. pps goes up pretty closely inline with > > what a G1 will do the G2 will forward close to double the G1 in > > packets per second approaching the no drop rate (NDR) the G2 can handle. > > So what sort of magic happens when both G1 and G2 hits 100%, and the G2 then > goes up to forward twice this "100% CPU" pps rate?
It's not magic. It has to do with the way CPU accounting is done on the box in conjunction with a bit different memory architecture. I'd have to go back and read the engineering documents to go real deep in to it. It's been a few weeks since I read it. Just trust me. ;) > > gert > -- > USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! > //www.muc.de/~gert/ > Gert Doering - Munich, Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED] > fax: +49-89-35655025 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
