* Aaron Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-31 19:01]: > > the install with the highest forwarding rate I know of uses a > > Supermicro X6DH8-XB, a 3.2 GHz Xeon and a bunch of em(4. I have > > seen it doing 750 MBit/s of real-world traffic at approx 150k pps. > > With a full routing table (~205k entries) and a GENERIC kernel it was > > running at roughly 80..90% CPU load; the slightly optimized for the task > > kernel I have in place there now gives quite some extra headroom. Also, > > I expect sk/msk(4) to perform better than em(4), but that has yet to be > > proven in real-world conditions. > > Does this still hold true for 4.1? I'm in the same predicament -- > carte blanche on hardware, need high PPS and throughput with as low > CPU usage as possible. I know there have been some signifigant chances > in the tree; but scouring interesting commit messages and grepping the > lists hasn't enlightened me much.
numbers above are from 4.1. -current should behave significantly better. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
