Re: [Openvpn-devel] an idea for openvpn..

2003-05-07 Thread James Yonan
Aaron, I've found that the linux scheduler on 2.4 does a fairly good job at giving openvpn the CPU that it needs, even on a more heavily loaded system. When openvpn is forwarding tunnel packets, it is essentially i/o bound, and as such gets a priority boost. When TLS keys are being negotiated, h

[Openvpn-devel] an idea for openvpn..

2003-05-07 Thread Aaron Sethman
One of the things that I just thought about is, that we can probably have openvpn call sched_setscheduler() using something like SCHED_RR. This might be of more use than just renicing the process. Considering we are in a fairly performance critical path for a userspace process this would seem to