we have fairly moderate usage using 1.2-release full install on a core2duo, using the intel e1000 nics on board tyan S5391 motherboard.
the numbers are: memory: 10% (of 2GB) CPU: 2% usage on average, typically 2% interrupt (peaking to about 5%), 0.5% system (peaking to 1%). mbuf usage: 1016/2340 disk usage: 3% of 4G for /, 1% or 300G for /var the states flicker vary between 5500 and 6000, and the memory usage barely changes! assuming linear CPU behaviour we could cope with 20 x 5500 = 110000 states worst case, probably twice or thrice that in reality, i.e. up to about 350,000 states. no vpns, just basic rules. if you're doing lots of vpn traffic you're probably best of having a separate machine for that, possibly with an accelerator card (ncipher?) I have modded the system lightly, installing syslog-ng, changed syslogd to bind to localhost and reflects logs to the syslog-ng, this means we do get more local disk activity as it keeps copies of logs on the machine as well as feeds them to a central log server. the core2 is not the best CPU for this task, a xeon or AMD would be better for its cache. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
