* Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-26 11:48]: > Theoretically, more processors are good. However, practically, almost > all of what gets done on a router is pushing packets. I've never used > any of the routing daemons, but I'd be *very* surprised if they caused > any load to speak of during normal operations.
they don't really. bgpd eats CPU time for breakfast when a full-mesh neighbor goes away tho, naturally. > All in all, I wouldn't expect much benefit from a dual-processor machine > in such a case. the ioapics could make the difference, and it could help to actually 'decouple' bgpd and the actual packet forwarding. but yeah, I am not certain wether the latter really helps all that much. -- BS Web Services, http://www.bsws.de/ OpenBSD-based Webhosting, Mail Services, Managed Servers, ... Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
