From: Per-Olov Sjöholm (posincedo.org)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2006 - 17:17:58 CDT

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On Thursday 06 April 2006 23.08, Claudio Jeker wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:47:16PM +0300, Claudiu Pruna wrote:
> > Hi there list,
> >
> > I got to a situation at work where I have an OpenBSD 3.9 amd64 router
> > acting as bgp and ospf router, and it has to coupe with 100Mbps and
> > approx 15.000 packets per second, but it can't at about 10k pps, I have
> > like 70% cpu utilisation on iterrupt, and all the traffic becomes an
> > extreme sport, it is an Intel P4 3GHz em64 with 512MB of ram and 2 Intel
> > Pro100 (fxp) network cards.
> >
> > Any ideea if/how can I "jump" over the 10k barrier ?
> >
> >
> >
> > P.S.: Claudio thanks for the advice about 3.9 bgpd version and additive
> > communities, I works smooth.
> >
> > Thanks for any sugestion or advice.
>
> Switch to i386. amd64 has some interrupt problems, the amd64 I tested once
> maxed at 80kpps but did 450kpps in i386 mode.

Hi Claudio

What cpu, network cards and pf ruleset size did you use during the test when
the server handled 450kpps ?

Just interested...

Regards
/Per-Olov

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