Le Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:37:58 +0200, "Riaan Kruger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
> I would like to know how IPsec makes use of a multi processor machine? > > I have gateway (FreeBSD 7.0) with four SAs configured. When testing > throughput through the configured SAs, I see (with systat) that only > one cpu works really hard (+-10% idle min), two others work a bit > (+-70% idle min) and the fourth CPU does pretty much nothing. > > Is this normal, shouldn't at least the two cpus work hard because of > the high throughput? I guess that's because the cryptographic requests are dispatched and done by two kernel threads. The thread 'crypto' dispatches and processes the requests, the thread 'crypto-returns' returns the results. You can see these kernel threads with top S H Regards. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
