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Re: [LARTC] Dual CPU performance in routing

To: GolemMTM <golem@mtm-info.pl>
Subject: Re: [LARTC] Dual CPU performance in routing
From: Alexandru Dragoi <alex@zoomnet.ro>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:21:12 +0200
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GolemMTM wrote:
Hello

I have question, currently using linux box as router. It only route packets.
Currently there is 80k packets/sec and this cause 90% CPU usage on
Intel Celeron 3ghz CPU.
Did multiprocessor system like 2x XEON DP 3.4ghz will divide CPU
usage between 2 CPU and will allow double routing performance ?


It will improve performance if irqs are balanced, but not double. Also, 90% seems like a lot. If you use firewalling (many linear rules) and qos (many linear u32 filter rules), they will cost a lot of performance, you will se that with top, on soft interrupts (si). I suggest you to use intel gigabit cards on pci64.
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