On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Simon Kirby wrote: > "vmstat 1") except in attack cases. The difference is probably just the > fact that this is running on slightly faster hardware (single Athlon > 1800MP, Tyan Tiger MPX board). What happened to Linux users being able to brag about how much they could do with CPUs that were useless for running Windows? On a 1Ghz CPU you've got almost 7,000 cycles to route a packet in order to handle 148kpps. I can't see why the slow path should be more than 2,000 cycles. I know some people's attitude is don't talk if you're not going to write the code. If I had the time I would; from my earliest days of programming I've been optimizing performance to the maximum. I can still remember using page 0 on my c64 to store an 8-bit register in 3 cycles instead of four... So to put a stake in the ground, I'd like to see a 1Ghz celeron with e1000 cards handle 148kpps of DOS traffic at <50% CPU utilization (with full routing tables & no firewalling). If that's not a reasonable expectation, someone please let me know. Even if my time was only worth $500/day, in the past year and a half I spent enough time working on Linux routers to buy a Cisco NPE-G1. :-( -Ralph - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
