Re: Hardware for PF - more general questions

2007-11-16 Thread Henning Brauer
hasn't that been talked about a dozen times lately... * Richard Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-14 11:33]: > I recall hearing tell (on here I think) that amd64 is a better arch for > routing, because of better interrupt handling or somesuch. Is this true? i386 used too be much better. it is t

Re: Hardware for PF - more general questions

2007-11-15 Thread David Gwynne
On 14/11/2007, at 8:11 PM, Richard Wilson wrote: I have been pondering for some time getting a new core router, and a recent question on HP Procurves vs Soekris boxes has kicked me into thought. I have some more general questions: I recall hearing tell (on here I think) that amd64 is a better a

Re: Hardware for PF - more general questions

2007-11-15 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/11/15 23:50, Thomas Althoff wrote: > > Depends which routes you take. You probably want 1GB if you receive > > full routes. Given there's no cisco tax on RAM here, this is quite > > viable. :-) > > Here's my view with two providers with full routes also running 4.2. The stats at the end

Re: Hardware for PF - more general questions

2007-11-15 Thread Thomas Althoff
> Depends which routes you take. You probably want 1GB if you receive > full routes. Given there's no cisco tax on RAM here, this is quite > viable. :-) > Here's my view with two providers with full routes also running 4.2. load averages: 0.17, 0.19, 0.11 38 processes: 37 idle, 1 on

Re: Hardware for PF - more general questions

2007-11-15 Thread Chris Cappuccio
> Depends which routes you take. You probably want 1GB if you receive > full routes. Given there's no cisco tax on RAM here, this is quite > viable. :-) > here's my view of full routes w/1GB of RAM and 4.2: 24164 root 20 8344K 8752K sleeppoll 13:00 0.00% bgpd 15092 _bgpd

Re: Hardware for PF - more general questions

2007-11-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/11/14 10:11, Richard Wilson wrote: > I recall hearing tell (on here I think) that amd64 is a better arch for > routing, because of better interrupt handling or somesuch. Is this true? OpenBSD/amd64 used to be worse than OpenBSD/i386 on the same hardware, I'm not sure about now - I haven't

Hardware for PF - more general questions

2007-11-14 Thread Richard Wilson
I have been pondering for some time getting a new core router, and a recent question on HP Procurves vs Soekris boxes has kicked me into thought. I have some more general questions: I recall hearing tell (on here I think) that amd64 is a better arch for routing, because of better interrupt handlin