Are you doing anything above 5Gbps? Or above 500k pps?
if not, get whichever.
If you are, then higher frequency cores are better; today.
If you are running dhcp server, then you are likely not.
On 2015 Aug 31 (Mon) at 22:38:47 -0400 (-0400), Quartz wrote:
:Quick question: I need to make a decision between a faster single core and a
:slower multicore. The faq currently states that pf gets no improvement from
:mp. Is this still correct/current information? Presumably it would see no
:benefit from hyperthreading either, right?
:
:For an OpenBSD machine acting as a gateway/firewall/router with a handful of
:related tasks (pf, dhcp server, etc) would mp yield anything?
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