On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Roger Schreiter <ro...@planinternet.de> wrote: > top show a CPU usage of 50% for interrupts, when > my router forwards 1.5 Mbit/s of IP traffic. > > My router is using OpenBSD 4.5, and running with > a VIA Eden Processor 1000MHz, which should imho be > able to handle that amount of IP traffic as router.
I'm no networking hardware expert, but I do know that some cards are better than other. Anyone answering your question would probably find your dmesg helpful in doing so. The output of 'vmstat -i' may be useful too. Philip Guenther