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Subject: Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding  performance (question,	and some info)
 [7-stable, current, em, smp]
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Well who wants to code it ?  I would gladly pay someone to make it work 
the way I want.  :) It needs to be able to do line rate gig-e with 64 
byte packets and 250k routes.
FBSD6 is definitely slower.
Haven't tried dragonfly.

Thanks


Ingo Flaschberger wrote:
> 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
>
>