Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 19:36:00 +0300 From: hugle <hugle@vkt.lt> To: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: routing for 1000 users and 10Mbit internet. Message-ID: <8935715836.20040531193600@vkt.lt> In-Reply-To: <20040531121948.T84772-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> References: <1025899241.20040531165223@vkt.lt> <20040531121948.T84772-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
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FG> On Mon, 31 May 2004, hugle wrote: >> The question in what machine do i need? >> What CPU and how much of ram ? FG> I set up a firewall for more than 300 users, a DMZ with a public webserver, FG> webmail and MX on a PII-350MHz with 128 MB RAM. dammit.. why then my users eats so much CPU? look: CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% system, 38.0% interrupt, 61.2% idle Mem: 21M Active, 177M Inact, 133M Wired, 1228K Cache, 199M Buf, 1677M Free I have only 61% idle ? usualy i have ~50 idle.. now I have P4 2.4GHZ maybe my setup is bad (kernel I mean)? ps. what those interrupt means? FG> On another client, I set up a firewall for 50 users with a Pentium 90MHz FG> with 64MB RAM. >> dual or single processor ? FG> One. Don't waste you money. A firewall isn't very CPU intensive. And given FG> the fact that ipf works at the IP stack level, I don't think you can have FG> more than one thread active at a time messing with the IP data structures. FG> Fer
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