OK, I have a firewall that gets hammered with interrupts when under DoS attacks. The system is a Celeron 2.8GHz socket 775, Intel 865 chipset, Intel dual-port Gig server card. At no time does the system suffer any load at all from disk IO, or CPU system time or user time.
Assuming all other things being equal, does a faster CPU handle more interrupts per second ? If not, what does give me the ability to handle more interrupts per second ?
I realize this is not a Linux specific question (in fact the firewall is actually OpenBSD), but maybe there is someone who can answer this with some degree of certainty.
Thanks, Mike -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
