Hola amigos, I'm doing some testing in the lab at the moment and just though I'd share.
pf0.swe69# pfctl -si | grep current current entries 50239413 pf0.swe69# vmstat -m | tail -n 1 In use 22035659K, total allocated 5678936K; utilization 388.0% pf0.swe69# 4 tcpbench sessions through it (450kpps under normal running) : pf0.swe69# netstat -I trunk0 -w1 trunk in trunk out total in total out packets errs packets errs colls packets errs packets errs colls 28547079349 0 32372963420 2822 0 114224543321 4 101542519853 6675 0 407927 0 408373 0 0 1631255 0 1225979 0 0 413105 0 414141 0 0 1652684 0 1242994 0 0 404324 0 404859 0 0 1617350 0 1215559 0 0 408613 0 409500 0 0 1634610 0 1229346 0 0 406545 0 407357 0 0 1626177 0 1222868 0 0 412529 0 413248 0 0 1649941 0 1240605 0 0 406656 0 407405 0 0 1626810 0 1222997 0 0 411297 0 412122 0 0 1645393 0 1237101 0 0 httperf can maintain a session rate of 650 sessions per second (12k+ under normal running): cloud8.swe69$ route -T2 exec httperf --server 10.96.2.24 --uri /1k.bin --num-conns 25000 --rate 650 httperf --client=0/1 --server=10.96.2.24 --port=80 --uri=/1k.bin --rate=650 --send-buffer=4096 --recv-buffer=16384 --num-conns=25000 --num-calls=1 Maximum connect burst length: 2 Total: connections 25000 requests 25000 replies 25000 test-duration 44.214 s Connection rate: 565.4 conn/s (1.8 ms/conn, <=381 concurrent connections) Connection time [ms]: min 190.9 avg 261.3 max 6408.1 median 198.5 stddev 334.3 Connection time [ms]: connect 43.0 Connection length [replies/conn]: 1.000 Request rate: 565.4 req/s (1.8 ms/req) Request size [B]: 69.0 Reply rate [replies/s]: min 473.8 avg 624.6 max 672.6 stddev 64.4 (8 samples) Reply time [ms]: response 1.2 transfer 217.1 Reply size [B]: header 211.0 content 1024.0 footer 0.0 (total 1235.0) Reply status: 1xx=0 2xx=25000 3xx=0 4xx=0 5xx=0 CPU time [s]: user 0.63 system 43.59 (user 1.4% system 98.6% total 100.0%) Net I/O: 720.0 KB/s (5.9*10^6 bps) Errors: total 0 client-timo 0 socket-timo 0 connrefused 0 connreset 0 Errors: fd-unavail 0 addrunavail 0 ftab-full 0 other 0 50M+ states and still standing, pretty good I think. /T OpenBSD 5.8-stable (GENERIC.MP) #103: Mon May 9 12:15:30 CEST 2016 root@ob2.swe69:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 34300891136 (32711MB) avail mem = 33257451520 (31716MB) mpath0 at root scsibus0 at mpath0: 256 targets mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.7 @ 0xec170 (34 entries) bios0: vendor American Megatrends Inc. version "3.0" date 04/24/2015 bios0: Supermicro X10SLD acpi0 at bios0: rev 2 acpi0: sleep states S0 S4 S5 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC FPDT FIDT SSDT SSDT SSDT SSDT MCFG PRAD HPET SSDT SSDT SPMI DMAR EINJ ERST HEST BERT acpi0: wakeup devices PEGP(S4) PEG0(S4) PEGP(S4) PEG1(S4) PEGP(S4) PEG2(S4) PXSX(S4) RP01(S4) PXSX(S4) RP02(S4) PXSX(S4) RP03(S4) PXSX(S4) RP04(S4) PXSX(S4) RP05(S4) [...] acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1241 v3 @ 3.50GHz, 3500.61 MHz cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUS H,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,PCLMUL,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX ,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,FMA3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT ,DEADLINE,AES,XSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,NXE,PAGE1GB,LONG,LAHF,ABM,PERF,ITSC,FSGSB ASE,BMI1,AVX2,SMEP,BMI2,ERMS,INVPCID,SENSOR,ARAT cpu0: 256KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache cpu0: smt 0, core 0, package 0 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support, 10 var ranges, 88 fixed ranges cpu0: apic clock running at 99MHz cpu0: mwait min=64, max=64, C-substates=0.2.1.2.4, IBE cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 2 (application processor) cpu1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1241 v3 @ 3.50GHz, 3500.00 MHz cpu1: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUS H,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,PCLMUL,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX ,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,FMA3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT ,DEADLINE,AES,XSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,NXE,PAGE1GB,LONG,LAHF,ABM,PERF,ITSC,FSGSB ASE,BMI1,AVX2,SMEP,BMI2,ERMS,INVPCID,SENSOR,ARAT cpu1: 256KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache cpu1: smt 0, core 1, package 0 cpu2 at mainbus0: apid 4 (application processor) cpu2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1241 v3 @ 3.50GHz, 3500.00 MHz cpu2: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUS H,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,PCLMUL,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX ,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,FMA3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT ,DEADLINE,AES,XSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,NXE,PAGE1GB,LONG,LAHF,ABM,PERF,ITSC,FSGSB ASE,BMI1,AVX2,SMEP,BMI2,ERMS,INVPCID,SENSOR,ARAT cpu2: 256KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache cpu2: smt 0, core 2, package 0 cpu3 at mainbus0: apid 6 (application processor) cpu3: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1241 v3 @ 3.50GHz, 3500.00 MHz cpu3: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUS H,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,PCLMUL,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX ,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,FMA3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT ,DEADLINE,AES,XSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,NXE,PAGE1GB,LONG,LAHF,ABM,PERF,ITSC,FSGSB ASE,BMI1,AVX2,SMEP,BMI2,ERMS,INVPCID,SENSOR,ARAT cpu3: 256KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache cpu3: smt 0, core 3, package 0 ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 8 pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins acpimcfg0 at acpi0 addr 0xf8000000, bus 0-63 acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318179 Hz acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 1 (PEG0) acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 2 (PEG1) acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus -1 (PEG2) acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus 3 (RP01) acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus -1 (RP02) acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus -1 (RP03) acpiprt7 at acpi0: bus -1 (RP04) acpiprt8 at acpi0: bus -1 (RP05) acpiprt9 at acpi0: bus -1 (RP06) acpiprt10 at acpi0: bus -1 (RP07) acpiprt11 at acpi0: bus -1 (RP08) acpiec0 at acpi0: not present acpicpu0 at acpi0: C1(@1 halt!) acpicpu1 at acpi0: C1(@1 halt!) acpicpu2 at acpi0: C1(@1 halt!) acpicpu3 at acpi0: C1(@1 halt!) acpipwrres0 at acpi0: PG00, resource for PEG0 acpipwrres1 at acpi0: PG01, resource for PEG1 acpipwrres2 at acpi0: PG02, resource for PEG2 acpipwrres3 at acpi0: FN00, resource for FAN0 acpipwrres4 at acpi0: FN01, resource for FAN1 acpipwrres5 at acpi0: FN02, resource for FAN2 acpipwrres6 at acpi0: FN03, resource for FAN3 acpipwrres7 at acpi0: FN04, resource for FAN4 acpitz0 at acpi0: critical temperature is 105 degC acpitz1 at acpi0: critical temperature is 105 degC acpibat0 at acpi0: BAT0 not present acpibat1 at acpi0: BAT1 not present acpibat2 at acpi0: BAT2 not present acpibtn0 at acpi0: LID0 acpibtn1 at acpi0: SLPB acpibtn2 at acpi0: PWRB acpivideo0 at acpi0: GFX0 acpivout0 at acpivideo0: DD1F ipmi at mainbus0 not configured pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0 pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 Host" rev 0x06 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel Core 4G PCIE" rev 0x06: msi pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 ix0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82599" rev 0x01: msi, address 0c:c4:7a:59:30:a4 ix1 at pci1 dev 0 function 1 "Intel 82599" rev 0x01: msi, address 0c:c4:7a:59:30:a5 ppb1 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 "Intel Core 4G PCIE" rev 0x06: msi pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 ix2 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82599" rev 0x01: msi, address 90:e2:ba:2a:ce:b8 ix3 at pci2 dev 0 function 1 "Intel 82599" rev 0x01: msi, address 90:e2:ba:2a:ce:b9 "Intel 8 Series MEI" rev 0x04 at pci0 dev 22 function 0 not configured "Intel 8 Series MEI" rev 0x04 at pci0 dev 22 function 1 not configured ehci0 at pci0 dev 26 function 0 "Intel 8 Series USB" rev 0x05: apic 8 int 16 usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 ppb2 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 8 Series PCIE" rev 0xd5: msi pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 ppb3 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "ASPEED Technology AST1150 PCI" rev 0x03 pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 vga1 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "ASPEED Technology AST2000" rev 0x30 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) ehci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 8 Series USB" rev 0x05: apic 8 int 22 usb1 at ehci1: USB revision 2.0 uhub1 at usb1 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 pcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel C224 LPC" rev 0x05 ahci0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 8 Series AHCI" rev 0x05: msi, AHCI 1.3 ahci0: port 0: 6.0Gb/s ahci0: port 1: 6.0Gb/s scsibus1 at ahci0: 32 targets sd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <ATA, INTEL SSDSC2BB12, G201> SCSI3 0/direct fixed naa.55cd2e404c022db4 sd0: 114473MB, 512 bytes/sector, 234441648 sectors, thin sd1 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: <ATA, INTEL SSDSC2BB12, G201> SCSI3 0/direct fixed naa.55cd2e404c022518 sd1: 114473MB, 512 bytes/sector, 234441648 sectors, thin ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 8 Series SMBus" rev 0x05: apic 8 int 18 iic0 at ichiic0 sdtemp0 at iic0 addr 0x18: stts2002 sdtemp1 at iic0 addr 0x19: stts2002 sdtemp2 at iic0 addr 0x1a: stts2002 sdtemp3 at iic0 addr 0x1b: stts2002 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 8GB DDR3 SDRAM ECC PC3-12800 with thermal sensor spdmem1 at iic0 addr 0x51: 8GB DDR3 SDRAM ECC PC3-12800 with thermal sensor spdmem2 at iic0 addr 0x52: 8GB DDR3 SDRAM ECC PC3-12800 with thermal sensor spdmem3 at iic0 addr 0x53: 8GB DDR3 SDRAM ECC PC3-12800 with thermal sensor "Intel 8 Series Thermal" rev 0x05 at pci0 dev 31 function 6 not configured isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com2 at isa0 port 0x3e8/8 irq 5: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 irq 1 irq 12 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 wbsio0 at isa0 port 0x2e/2: NCT6776F rev 0x33 lm1 at wbsio0 port 0xa30/8: NCT6776F uhub2 at uhub0 port 1 "Intel Rate Matching Hub" rev 2.00/0.05 addr 2 uhub3 at uhub2 port 3 "ATEN International product 0x7000" rev 2.00/0.00 addr 3 uhidev0 at uhub3 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "ATEN International product 0x2419" rev 1.10/1.00 addr 4 uhidev0: iclass 3/1 ukbd0 at uhidev0: 8 variable keys, 6 key codes wskbd0 at ukbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 uhidev1 at uhub3 port 1 configuration 1 interface 1 "ATEN International product 0x2419" rev 1.10/1.00 addr 4 uhidev1: iclass 3/1 ums0 at uhidev1: 3 buttons, Z dir wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0 uhub4 at uhub1 port 1 "Intel Rate Matching Hub" rev 2.00/0.05 addr 2 vscsi0 at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets root on sd0a (705899aa0befef4d.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b