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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: changed to: Frac T3?
To: alk@Think.COM (Tony Kimball)
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> Quoth Joe Greco on Fri, 15 November:
> : I was reliably routing 5000pps the other day on a Pentium 100...
> : and it did not seem particularly stressed out.
> 
> Has anyone constructed a performance model for routing on x86
> hardware?  You only need to improve this performance by a factor
> of 3.4 in order to attain Dennis' magic 17 kpps.  That does not
> seem very far out.

No, I have a bad habit of routing on low end equipment...  

But I agree... if a P100 can do 5000pps, what can a PP200 do :-)

... JG