Re: IPsec's use of processors

2008-11-18 Thread Riaan Kruger
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Patrick Lamaizière <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Le Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:37:58 +0200, > "Riaan Kruger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > > I would like to know how IPsec makes use of a multi processor machine? > > > > I have gateway (FreeBSD 7.0) with four SAs configu

Re: IPsec's use of processors

2008-11-15 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:37:58 +0200, "Riaan Kruger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > I would like to know how IPsec makes use of a multi processor machine? > > I have gateway (FreeBSD 7.0) with four SAs configured. When testing > throughput through the configured SAs, I see (with systat) that only

IPsec's use of processors

2008-11-14 Thread Riaan Kruger
I would like to know how IPsec makes use of a multi processor machine? I have gateway (FreeBSD 7.0) with four SAs configured. When testing throughput through the configured SAs, I see (with systat) that only one cpu works really hard (+-10% idle min), two others work a bit (+-70% idle min) and the