On Thursday 06 April 2006 23.08, Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:47:16PM +0300, Claudiu Pruna wrote: > > Hi there list, > > > > I got to a situation at work where I have an OpenBSD 3.9 amd64 router > > acting as bgp and ospf router, and it has to coupe with 100Mbps and > > approx 15.000 packets per second, but it can't at about 10k pps, I have > > like 70% cpu utilisation on iterrupt, and all the traffic becomes an > > extreme sport, it is an Intel P4 3GHz em64 with 512MB of ram and 2 Intel > > Pro100 (fxp) network cards. > > > > Any ideea if/how can I "jump" over the 10k barrier ? > > > > > > > > P.S.: Claudio thanks for the advice about 3.9 bgpd version and additive > > communities, I works smooth. > > > > Thanks for any sugestion or advice. > > Switch to i386. amd64 has some interrupt problems, the amd64 I tested once > maxed at 80kpps but did 450kpps in i386 mode.
Hi Claudio What cpu, network cards and pf ruleset size did you use during the test when the server handled 450kpps ? Just interested... Regards /Per-Olov
