From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael T. Babcock" Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 19:22:24 +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 Mike Fedyk wrote: >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). > Although having the kernel CPU times be accurate, etc., I think its more important to know how much overall bandwidth was achieved with a 486 as a router, with and without QoS or other rules on. If the speed doesn't get slower (except where limiting is enforced, of course), then its a big enough machine (and we can all buy up a bunch of old 486 stock to build Linux-based router appliances). :-) -- Michael T. Babcock CTO, FibreSpeed _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/