* tarom...@gmail.com <tarom...@gmail.com> [2010-07-16 19:27]: > From my novice perspective, I wonder if the interrupt load actually > makes a difference on the performance of OpenBGPd on different hardware > as bge or em.
on a route server? unlikely. on a box actually forwarding traffic? yeah, if we talk hundreds of mbit/s. > My question, if not too offtopic, is if we can use the interrupt load > as a measure of NIC throughput. My uninformed guess is that its not. no, you can't. with int mitigation in the game and various mitigation schemes being used, no, really not. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting
