From: Mohan Sundaram <mohan.tux@gmail.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] Which CPU for heavy traffic with much filtering/shaping?
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:30:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47425218.9090700@vsnl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47415A73.9020107@interdart.co.uk>
Derek Sims wrote:
> Marek Kierdelewicz wrote
>>> 1. What processors should I be looking for in order to achieve the
>>> best routing throughput on a linux router?
>>>
>> I've had good experiences with P4 (with and without HT), Athlon64, Xeon
>> [dempsey], Xeon [woodcrest]. The last one is the best choice because of
>> the large cache and architecture. I think you can use Core 2 Duo too
>> if you want to save some money.
>>
>>
> Thanks - I will see what I can get
I used AMD Opteron 2Ghz and it blazes. In my packet switching
benchmarks, onchip cache gave no benefit. On price-performance basis,
you'd be better off going for greater CPU speed than for cache.
Mohan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-20 3:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-19 9:42 [LARTC] Which CPU for heavy traffic with much filtering/shaping? Derek Sims
2007-11-19 16:40 ` Marek Kierdelewicz
2007-11-19 17:55 ` Derek Sims
2007-11-19 23:08 ` sawar
2007-11-20 1:03 ` Marek Kierdelewicz
2007-11-20 3:15 ` Mohan Sundaram
2007-11-20 3:30 ` Mohan Sundaram [this message]
2007-11-20 16:03 ` Marco C. Coelho
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