On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 12:00:26PM -0700, Don Cohen wrote: > > A few days ago someone was asking whether 100MHz pentium was enough to > do what looked like a small routing job. My guess at the time was > that much less was needed but I didn't have any data. > Now I do. I have a 486 acting as a firewall on a .5Mb DSL line. > For what it's worth, dmesg says: > Calibrating delay loop... 16.38 BogoMIPS > Memory: 14572k/16640k > I just scp'd about 15MB over that connection (took about 7-8 min) and > watched the load average while it was happening. It converged to zero. > I don't believe that routing load is factored into this load average. To get a measurement, you'd need some kernel profiling tools (cant think of any now though). Mike
