Load average question

2011-08-08 Thread Rikky Taylor
I am a little puzzled by how openbsd calculated load avaerage. I have a server running 4.9 i386 that should be doing very little indeed yet has a consistent load average of 0.6-0.9 Other similar servers have consisten load averages of 0.05-0.1 when i do a "ps aux" it shows a small number of proc

Re: Linux or OpenBSD

2010-09-23 Thread Rikky Taylor
> F.Y.I. > I believe PF still? performs better on i386 than it does on amd64. So if i have a Sun X4100 should I install the i386 version of OpenBSD or should I get different hardware for a firewall? Isnt pretty much all hardware 64bit capable these days?

Linux or OpenBSD

2010-09-22 Thread Rikky Taylor
I was after some general advice. I need to setup a routing firewall with 3 interfaces, moderate traffic and a fair amount of NAT'ing in the rules. Given identical modern server hardware would I expect a performance difference between an OpenBSD/PF setup and a Linux/IPTables one? Rikky