On 2008-12-12, Dave Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Given I will need one to be a trunk port to a cisco switch, which will > carry the bulk of the data, and one to be the pfsync link to its CARP > twin, and possibly a management interface on a third, I was wondering if > there's any difference between the two chips, eg bge does more work and > uses fewer interrupts, so use that for the trunk, or similar?
hit it with heavy traffic (ping -f will do) while systat vmstat is running and watch the interrupt rates, cpu times etc.
