On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 08:48:11AM -0400, Joe . wrote: > On 7/22/05, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 100Kpps should be reachable with the right hardware right now. > > > > there is room for optimization in OpenBSD to reach way higher > > forwarding rates. > > > > Part of the problem here is that people need to know the optimizations > and unfortunately it seems like it takes either lots of research > and/or a bit of luck to get the best combo. Instead it would be great > if there was either a small addition to the faq or a separate faq that > gave simple and explicit directions in how to turn an openbsd server > into a lean mean routing machine. (Henning: Life with an OpenBSD > router?) uh, no. I think you missed the point of Henning's comment. This is something for developers to work on, not magic knobs for you to twist. If there was something worthy of putting in the FAQ about this, it would be in the CODE. This isn't some other OS that shall remain nameless, where you are expecting to get a barely functional system and have to twist a lot of knobs to make it run properly, OpenBSD is supposed to have a good set of settings out of the box on the best-tested version of the kernel.
Somehow, people seem to think there is some magic tweek we hide from people that will make their systems run "better". If that were the case, it would be set ALREADY. Sheesh...why would we hide such a thing? why wouldn't it be set that way if it was a "always do this" kind of thing? The people who persue these kinds of tweeks usually are trying to optimize their cable modem or a T1 line that wasn't coming close to pushing the limits, anyway. Might explain all the stupid looking fins and funny exhaust systems I see bolted on cars...which is fine, just don't expect the auto maker to help you...nor exect it to get you through traffic any faster...inor get through the track any faster when you are pushing down on the rear wheels of a front wheel drive car *sigh*. But I digress... > It would definitely help to lower the barrier of entry and then > instead of rehashing this topic you could just point people to that > doc (and perhaps throw some real world results in it for good > measure). This would help people make the case for openbsd at work to > their managers as well. No, lowering hte barrier involves making things Just Work without tweeking silly knobs. Nick.
