My understanding is that Giant lock is gone from the FreeBSD network stack
in 8:
http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/arch/2009-04/msg00075.html


Dimitri Rodis
Integrita Systems LLC 
http://www.integritasystems.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Marquette [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 4:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Re: Can't get more than 15kpps.

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Bill McIlhargey Jr <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Sounds like over kill for pfsense!  :D
>
> Message sent from my iPhone
>
> Bill McIlhargey Jr
> COMPUTERONIX, LLC
> 978.500.5936
> [email protected]
> www.compute-ronix.com

It's only overkill if you don't need the horsepower...with that said,
pfSense isn't going to scale anywhere near linearly given PF being
under the Giant lock, although it will scale a bit with more cores.

--Bill

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