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From: Mohan Sundaram <mohan.tux@gmail.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] Hardware Requirements for qdisc htb/sfq
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:59:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <473BA7CF.3010201@vsnl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7C454E01C5FAE748BEFE65F4C6B7FD8BF42B1F@s-marcell.hemc.coop>

Shane McKinley wrote:
> I have been searching everywhere for some kind of guidelines, but I see
> none. If anyone could give me a round about answer that would point me
> in the right direction I would be obliged.
> 
> This is what I have been looking at:
> 
> 2.0GHz Dual-Core Xeon, 4GB 667MGz RAM, 2x1Gbit Network Interfaces.
> 
> Is this overkill?
> 
Speed normally seen in PPS. The 7200 routes approx 1M PPS. I ran our own 
routing and classification s/w on a AMD Opteron 2Ghz, 1GB RAM and got 
1.1M PPS. Linux Kernel gave approx 700K PPS.

IMHO your h/w is way oversized but why not? H/w is cheap nowadays.

Mohan
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-15  1:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-14 20:44 [LARTC] Hardware Requirements for qdisc htb/sfq Shane McKinley
2007-11-14 21:36 ` Marek Kierdelewicz
2007-11-14 21:51 ` Shane McKinley
2007-11-14 22:04 ` Marek Kierdelewicz
2007-11-15  1:59 ` Mohan Sundaram [this message]

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