Hey Henning,
Henning Brauer a icrit :
* Ronnie Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-22 21:10]:
I'm graphing a lot of kernel/pf variables with cacti, and i'm clearly
seeing the box maxing at 15k interrupts/s.
that is not necessarily a problem.
I'm raising 15k interrupts/s when the box is routing approx 13k pps and
then the CPU is at 50-55%.
at 13k pps you definately want good nics which have proper interrupt
mitigation. most gigE NICs fall into that category; sk, msk and em fall
definately into that category.
Thanks for your detailled reply.
I guess that you are using (or used) obsd routers/firewalls at BS Web
Services. They might also handle a high packets rate.
May i ask what kind of hardware you are using ? Motherboard, CPU, NIC,
PCI type ?
I'm considering buying new hardware for these firewalls, and i'd like
them to handle a bunch of pps ;)
Regards,
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