On 2021-09-18, Barbaros Bilek <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello OpenBSD misc list, > > I am writing this email to ask clearly about the issues that I could not > clear in my mind despite reading about OpenBSD and ip forwarding limits. > First of all, thank you for reading. > > What is the maximum ipv4 forwarding value in pps that I can reach with > OpenBSD on a super server? (e.g. 2 socket Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8360Y > Processor (54M Cache, 2.40 GHz), 256GB RAM and Intel/Mellanox ethernet > cards)
This isn't the right cpu to get best performance out of OpenBSD. You want higher base clock speed (better ones are 3.6GHz +), maybe higher turbo boost speeds, and you do not want that many cores. 256GB RAM won't do anything to help packet forwarding speed. > Is OpenBSD's ipv4 forwarding performance hardware dependent? Or are we > stuck at the limits of the OpenBSD operating system at this point? It is dependent on both hardware and software. > Actually i would like to reach 9 Mpps ipv4 forwarding rate under OpenBSD. > Is this theory possible with the right hardware configuration? I'm trying > to understand this. That is i the region of 10x higher than you are likely to get from OpenBSD at the moment. > Thank you in advance for all the information you will give me. > Have a nice weekend... > > Notes: PF would be disabled. > > -- > Best Regards > Barbaros Bilek > -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
