From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Fedyk Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 19:02:59 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] On the question of how big a machine you need Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org 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 _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/