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From: Ingo Flaschberger <if@xip.at>
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Subject: Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding  performance (question,	and some info)
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Dear Paul,

> Yes it does but it seems to use a lot more of one cpu than the others so It's 
> really not SMP.. Can I stop it from doing this with some setting?
> Why can't there be 4 taskq's?

it is possible, but it need to be coded.

hz 4000 is also too high, use 1000-2000
http://www.tancsa.com/blast.html

> Also with full internet table I can't even do 100kpps without errors.. I 
> don't get it :/  I could do 300kpps on a p3 and now I have a 3ghz xeon and 
> 2.2ghz opteron  brand new hardware and can barely get more than that.. 
> Doesn't make sense to me.

have you tested with freebsd 6?
or try dragonfly?

Kind regards,
 	Ingo Flaschberger