Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269231AbUIHSCa (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:02:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269255AbUIHSCa (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:02:30 -0400 Received: from slartibartfast.pa.net ([66.59.111.182]:12211 "EHLO slartibartfast.pa.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269231AbUIHSC1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:02:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 13:58:28 -0400 (EDT) From: William Stearns X-X-Sender: wstearns@sparrow Reply-To: William Stearns To: Ram Chandar cc: ML-linux-kernel , William Stearns Subject: Re: Linux Routing Performance inferior? In-Reply-To: <200409071000.58455.rchandar-knl@qz.port5.com> Message-ID: References: <200409071000.58455.rchandar-knl@qz.port5.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1559 Lines: 36 Good afternoon, Ram, On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Ram Chandar wrote: > Quoted from a recent mail to freebsd mailing list. > > "FreeBSD (5.x) can route 1Mpps on a 2.8G Xeon while > Linux can't do much more than 100kpps" > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2004-September/004840.html > > Is this indeed the case? I'm sure others here have far better examples, but one post to the netfilter-devel list last December provided an example of a firewall that could process 580kpps with netfilter/conntrack turned off. Granted, the post noted that adding netfilter brought that down to 450kpps, and adding conntrack on top of that brought it down to 295kpps, but all three of those numbers are well over the claimed 100kpps. Cheers, - Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "While it may be true that a watched pot never boils, the one you don't keep an eye on can make an awful mess of your stove." -- Edward Stevenson (Courtesy of Slashdot) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Stearns (wstearns@pobox.com). Mason, Buildkernel, freedups, p0f, rsync-backup, ssh-keyinstall, dns-check, more at: http://www.stearns.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/