On 2008-04-02, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 2, 2008, at 2:52 AM, Vinicius Vianna wrote: > >> Maybe it would be easier to just upgrade your NIC's to some intel >> "em" ones, it have low interrupt usage, don't know about bge on high >> usage. >> > > I'm interested to the see the results if the OP does this. > > I've got some similar boxes with bge nics.
Most bge(4) aren't all that bad. They do have interrupt mitigation. >From what I heard bnx(4) are probably a good choice nowadays if you're looking at new servers. Besides the missing dmesg, the other thing the OP didn't include which would be relevant is any idea about traffic rate (bits/second *and* packets/second, or at least average packet sizes), or which crypto algorithms are used (e.g. maybe there's 3des which could be replaced by something faster). I'm not sure what exactly is counted as "cpu in interrupt", I know PF is accounted for there, but maybe ipsec as well. Anyone?
