From: Henning Brauer (lists-openbsdbsws.de)
Date: Tue Apr 15 2008 - 06:27:36 CDT

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* Joe Warren-Meeks <joehole-in-the.net> [2008-04-14 17:53]:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 05:38:21PM +0200, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
>
> Hey there,
>
> > According several messages I've read from Henning or Daniel in present
> > and pf list, there are not any benefits in run PF with MP kernels (and
> > multi-processor boxes, of course). Even you can get a poor performance
> > that uni-processor kernel/box.
>
> If the box was only doing pf stuff, then that would be correct. If you
> were to put a bunch of ftp-proxys on there too, then MP would help, no?

ftp-proxies, not really.

bloated proxies like squid, maybe pretending to try to save windows/macos
boxes from the inevitable using some form of content scanning - yes, MP
can be useful.

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