On 4/26/2013 12:22 PM, Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Gleb Smirnoff <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> In FreeBSD 10 pf is no longer under single lock. On your hardware,
>> I'd expect a measurable performance gain if you migrate to 10.
>
> Compairing 9.1 and current (249908) on my new test-server (HP ProLiant
> DL320 G5, dual-core Xeon 3050, dual Intel NIC).
> Like usual: one unidirectional flow of small packets, values in
> packet-per-seconds:
>
> x 9.1
> + current
> N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
> x 5 379991 381508 381229 380892.6 667.69926
> + 5 332833 335502 334726 334223.2 1142.8266
> Difference at 95.0% confidence
> -46669.4 +/- 1364.98
> -12.2526% +/- 0.358363%
> (Student's t, pooled s = 935.915)
Is that because pf is slower on a single flow, or packet forwarding in
general is slower on HEAD ? How different is 9.1 and HEAD in just
forwarding performance?
---Mike
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Sentex Communications, [email protected]
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