Re: [pfSense Support] Review New Hardware Setup

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Are main CPU hog is the Captive Portal, with 50-100+ people trying to login at the same time, it can eat up the CPU big time. If i turn captiveportal off, are 5501s barely peak over 30% cpu, with it on, I'm seeing 100% spikes all the time. I can't see me ever having a pipe bigger then 50mb/s or a DS3. So I'm pretty sure the box will be able to handle that throughput without a problem. Thanks for the input! Adam Chris Buechler wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Paul Mansfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: from a previous discussion, Opteron processors are best. Not necessarily at this time. The biggest factor in pps throughput is L1 cache size. AMD procs used to have significantly more L1 cache than Intels and hence were much more scalable in pps throughput, but I believe there isn't much if any difference now. Depends on which ones you're comparing. But we're discussing multi-Gbps and 500+ Kpps capable hardware when a relatively puny 5501 is almost adequate now, and only looking to accommodate a 5* increase in load. Any new system you buy today is going to push 20 times what a 5501 will, and have power to spare. Make sure you get Intel PRO/1000 PCI-e cards, even if you just have a 100 Mb network at this time. It's not much more money and gives you significantly more scalability. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]