On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:56:42AM +0000, David Malone wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 04:51:51AM +0100, Max Laier wrote: > > I tried the reference machines (see hacked up attachment): > > 78x ia64 > > 40x amd64 > > 60x p3 > > 16x p4 > > > I don't have my Soekris set up, so if somebody could give it a try. > > On my 4.11 Soekris 4501 box, the test shows about 70x for gcc -O2 > and 40x for gcc -O. As these are worst-case figures, it would be > interesting to see how CPU usage is impacted for forwarding high > packet rates. My feeling is that this difference would be lost in
the top forwarding performance of a soekris is around 30-35kpps if i remember well - this translates in around 30us/packet all included. as you see from the absolute numbers in my other posting, the overhead is very significant. cheers luigi _______________________________________________ freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ipfw To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"