Bill Marquette wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Scott Ullrich <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Dimitri Rodis >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 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 >> PF is still protected by one "giant" lock and does not scale across all CPUs. > > Exactly. The network stack itself not being under giant is the only > reason you achieve _any_ amount of scaling past one CPU - that and
has anyone benchmarked pfSense on a decent corei6 system for comparison with opteron and older Xeon 54,53 etc? I ask 'cos we're going to have a few dell 2950 and r710s available for this sort of thing for a short while during a colo build-out. Has anyone written up a standardised test for pfsense that would be useful? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
