I can't get more than about 20Mbit/sec down with BBB as a router. I tried installing kernel 3.13.9-bone9 after reading your comment, but there is no difference. When I connect my old router, I get the 30Mbit/sec I pay for. Any ideas? Where is this ksoftirqd you speak of? I don't see it in my running processes.
On Thursday, April 3, 2014 8:22:32 AM UTC-7, Michael Mullin wrote: > > I've setup my home with a BBB acting as a firewall/router. > > With the 3.12 kernel, I had problems in high data-volume situations > (3+MB/s DL according to my download managers). ksoftirqd would start > taking up all the processor and then my packets would be dropped. > > After upgrading to the 3.13 kernel... this problem was abated. ksoftirqd > rarely goes above 30% now. Still, I wouldn't put 150 users' data through a > BBB. > > Im a bit curious about what changed in the 3.13 kernel to give me such a > performance boost. > > On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 5:25:05 PM UTC-4, Mike Bell wrote: >> >> On 04/01/2014 05:02 PM, vignesh murali wrote: >> > I just wanted to know whether it would be a good idea to run BBB as a >> > router w/ firewall capability. I intend to use BBB with 1 WAN port and >> > 2 LAN ports(with USB to ethernet dongles) to support a total of 150 >> > users in the network. I am skeptical about the load the BBB can >> > handle with the above said numbers. Any suggestions? >> >> Wild guess... I would say the USB dongles would be where you hit the >> wall. The BBB has more than enough CPU power, RAM might become a factor >> with that many users with a lot of rules. >> >> LEAF has an ARM port for Rpi. I don't recall if it's in main or not. I >> would think the same hurdles would apply here for that number of users. >> >> Seems to me for the money a Sokeris (sp?) board or something similar >> might be more appropriate. >> >> My 2 cents worth anyway. >> >> Mike >> > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
