By loaded, how about passing a full Class B address over an OC-3 where the traffic
over the link is fairly constant between 70-100MBps?
>>> Steve Shorter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/11/02 08:16AM >>>
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 08:14:24PM +1000, Darren Reed wrote:
> In some email I received from Paul B. Henson, sie wrote:
> >
> > from research on this mailing list and others, it seems it is very common
> > to have to increase the default value of NMBCLUSTERS under a heavy load.
> > most often, it seems to have been increased to 8192 or 16384.
> >
[snip]
> > In any case, I was wondering if anyone has placed an OpenBSD 3.1 firewall
> > under heavy load yet. I have done some limited testing, but my test
> > environment is not sufficient to completely emulate the production load. I
> > really don't want to put a firewall into production that runs out of a
> > critical network resource which I am then unable to increase. I have 2 GB
> > of RAM in this machine -- I would much rather have unused buffers than ever
> > run out.
>
> The best advice here is to just use another OS, if you feel that
> uncomfortable with OpenBSD.
Yep. If we're talking about a dedicated router/firewall then
I can only conclude that OpenBSD is broken for serious production
use. 2G of RAM for a dedicated router/firewall is rediculous. Or exactly
what is meant by loaded?
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