On Monday 27 March 2006 05.10, you wrote: > On 3/26/06, Per-Olov Sjvholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My questions are: > > Is it normal for the above server to idle for 50-70% when there is 50Mbit > > network load and 25000 states? > > Is there a way to make it idle even more and lower the interrups? How? > > If the average network load increases to let's say 100Mbit, is the > > interrupt and cpu consumption linear? > > We do not want to have any production stops.. So are there any kernel > > knobs we should touch in this environment? > > Can PF make use of SMP? If so... How efficient is it? > > Why is it that network usage is still popularized by artificial > measures, i.e. mbit/s?
you are right... I mentioned mbit/s and what type of data instead of pps. But see below... > > What kind of pps rates do you see per interface? This is to/from the internet (the external interface). Not much traffic goes between internal interfaces. pfstat2.jpg contains pps... http://www.flowsystems.se/~sjoholmp/ /Per-Olov
