On Tuesday 07 June 2005 20:56, Sean Knox wrote:
> Tony Sarendal wrote:
> > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 20:17, Sean Knox wrote:
> >>I installed the NIC to the shared PCI slot and it has helped, but not as
> >>much as I expected. Now that all NICs are sharing an IRQ, interrupt
> >>usage has dropped from ~90% to ~70%. I'm pushing about 250000 kb/s
> >>across two NICs, which makes me wonder the max throughput I can expect
> >>on a firewall on these Intel boxes.
> >
> > What is that in packets per second ?
>
> Ingress is 16255 packets/sec and egress is 18032 packets/sec.
16k+18k pps at 70% interrupt cpu ? On a modern PC ?
That sounds disapointing to say the least.
I checked one of my ancient 600Mhz P3 with a four port dc, it's doing 15k+15k
at 33% interrupt cpu. I dug through old emails and found that an old firewall
I had with Athlon850MHz and one ti (netgear) doing 26k+26k on it's vlan trunk
at 15% interrupt cpu.
Please tell me your box is an old piece of junk like my boxes.
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