From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mohan Sundaram Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:59:29 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Hardware Requirements for qdisc htb/sfq Message-Id: <473BA7CF.3010201@vsnl.com> List-Id: References: <7C454E01C5FAE748BEFE65F4C6B7FD8BF42B1F@s-marcell.hemc.coop> In-Reply-To: <7C454E01C5FAE748BEFE65F4C6B7FD8BF42B1F@s-marcell.hemc.coop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Shane McKinley wrote: > I have been searching everywhere for some kind of guidelines, but I see > none. If anyone could give me a round about answer that would point me > in the right direction I would be obliged. > > This is what I have been looking at: > > 2.0GHz Dual-Core Xeon, 4GB 667MGz RAM, 2x1Gbit Network Interfaces. > > Is this overkill? > Speed normally seen in PPS. The 7200 routes approx 1M PPS. I ran our own routing and classification s/w on a AMD Opteron 2Ghz, 1GB RAM and got 1.1M PPS. Linux Kernel gave approx 700K PPS. IMHO your h/w is way oversized but why not? H/w is cheap nowadays. Mohan _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc