>2010/3/16 Jon Otterholm <jon.otterh...@ide.resurscentrum.se>: >> >> Narrowed it down to the following: >> >> Intel Q9650 3,0Ghz >> Intel i7-965/975 3,2Ghz/3,33Ghz >> >> What would be the benefit from a Xeon? >> >> The router will be running IPFW and Dummynet for traffic-shaping. Along with >> that, standard services like dhcpd.
> Xeons usually got more cache memory on board and mean to work on >servers (read: stable). And of course there should be ECC memory. Xeon may work in multi-CPU servers. Speaking of routers, you have multicore (2CPU x 4cores = 8cores) machine with 1-2-3 NIC's, and can't load other cores in CPU (earlier versions before FBSD 8.x). You need NIC with MSI (Interrupt Moderation) for better performance. 1. What kind of traffic did you expect? 2. What flow bit per seconds did you expect? I have PPPoE concentrator based on S3000AHV motherboard with EXPI9400 and EXPI9402 NIC's and Core2Quad Q6600 CPU and FreeBSD 7.2. This router may handle about 150k pps and 1Gbps for one direction of internet traffic. Do you need core i5/7 ?
--- Begin Message ---2010/3/16 Jon Otterholm <jon.otterh...@ide.resurscentrum.se>: > Hi. > > In the process to build a new router and want to choose the best possible > CPU for the job. > > Narrowed it down to the following: > > Intel Q9650 3,0Ghz > Intel i7-965/975 3,2Ghz/3,33Ghz > > What would be the benefit from a Xeon? > > Motherboard: Supermicro X8SBI-4LN. > RAM: 4GB > > The router will be running IPFW and Dummynet for traffic-shaping. Along with > that, standard services like dhcpd. > > Any thoughts appreciated. > > Xeons usually got more cache memory on board and mean to work on servers (read: stable). And of course there should be ECC memory. AFAIK you can't install more than one CORE cpu onto multicpu motherboard but you can do so with XEON. Did you mean this: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/X58/X8STi-LN4.cfm board? _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
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