From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] On the question of how big a machine you need
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 19:02:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-99487826715323@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-99487796814308@msgid-missing>
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 12:00:26PM -0700, Don Cohen wrote:
>
> A few days ago someone was asking whether 100MHz pentium was enough to
> do what looked like a small routing job. My guess at the time was
> that much less was needed but I didn't have any data.
> Now I do. I have a 486 acting as a firewall on a .5Mb DSL line.
> For what it's worth, dmesg says:
> Calibrating delay loop... 16.38 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 14572k/16640k
> I just scp'd about 15MB over that connection (took about 7-8 min) and
> watched the load average while it was happening. It converged to zero.
>
I don't believe that routing load is factored into this load average.
To get a measurement, you'd need some kernel profiling tools (cant
think of any now though).
Mike
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-11 18:59 [LARTC] On the question of how big a machine you need Don Cohen
2001-07-11 19:02 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2001-07-11 19:22 ` Michael T. Babcock
2001-07-11 19:43 ` Henry Yen
2001-07-12 7:42 ` Arthur van Leeuwen
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