Jonathan I have forgot to say that the CPU was loaded ~50% when capturing at over 11 Mpps. This is also important if you plan to do something with these packets beside just counting them.
Luca On May 16, 2011, at 6:45 PM, Luca Deri wrote: > Hi Jonathan > > On May 16, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: > >> Hi Luca, >> >> With regard to the ntop blog entry "Packet Capture Performance at 10 Gbit: >> PF_RING vs TNAPI", May 10, 2011 >> Do you have a packet drop % at the NIC driver level for each of the >> benchmarks? (from rx_missed_errors in ethtool -S or drop from /proc/net/dev) > > You can compute that as we're inject wire rate and getting ~50% of it. > >> >> Also im just following up on the 10GbE 82599 DNA driver and wondering how >> development is progressing? >> > > We're polishing the code. As of today with a low-end Xeon PC you can capture > (timestamp and all the rest, no faked tests like you read on some papers) > more than 11 Mpps (yes 11 Million packets/sec), but we're confident we can > push it even further before the final release. > > Stay tuned, Luca > >> Regards >> Jonathan >> _______________________________________________ >> Ntop-misc mailing list >> Ntop-misc@listgateway.unipi.it >> http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-misc > > --- > We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we > created them - Albert Einstein > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop-misc mailing list > Ntop-misc@listgateway.unipi.it > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-misc --- Due to lack of interest, tomorrow is cancelled - Kaiser Chiefs _______________________________________________ Ntop-misc mailing list Ntop-misc@listgateway.unipi.it http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-misc
