Im running some throughput testing using OpenBSD as the router OS. Running
the GENERIC.MP kernel im not seeing any system load despite the NIC's generating
about 40 000 interrupts in vmstat.
Running the same test on a GENERIC kernel results in 80% system utilization.
Checking with sysctl confir
I have a few machines with the same behavior. The boxes run fine
unless you tax them with
things like unpacking ports, du on a large tree or dd'ng some
/dev/zero to disk. The 1950 can route 400mbit
ethernet with no problems for weeks if you don't mess with the disks,
so i guess the hardware is
reas
I guess the previous message got garbled somehow.
Dell 1950 with a PERC5 raid1 SATA 160gb mirror. 4.2-RELEASE
A 300mb dd write makes an unkillable process. Outputs a few "sd0: not
queued, error 5" lines.
Recently flashed the card to the latest firmware. Behaves somewhat better.
Happens with
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Martmn Coco
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi misc,
>
> I'm currently looking for hardware alternatives for firewalls that should
> have more than four NICs.
>
> Currently we are buying R200s from Dell, but we have the 4 NIC limitation.
> We could tell Dell to instal
;
> Have you tried the quad nics on those Dells? We do have a couple of R200s,
> 860s and 850s running with 2 dual port cards no problem, but we have never
> tried the quad ports.
>
> Torsten Frost escribis:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Martmn Coco
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