From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mohan Sundaram Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:30:48 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Which CPU for heavy traffic with much filtering/shaping? Message-Id: <47425218.9090700@vsnl.com> List-Id: References: <47415A73.9020107@interdart.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <47415A73.9020107@interdart.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org 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 _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc