> So, as you see, I'll be building 2 to 4 identical appliances, with me > configuring & testing them all here, and shipping the remote units overseas. I > don't want to build these appliances next week, only to tell the customer he > needs new units in 6 months. Hence, that's the reason why I'm looking at dual > Athlon's or Xeon's with the v2.4x kernel: The very LAST place I need a > bottleneck is the VPN appliance! :) > > ----- > > Speaking of which, are there any rough estimates of LEAF's capacity vs CPU > horsepower. Also, does the linux kernel take advantage of the "Screaming > Sindy" P4 instruction extensions?
LEAF is linux, so any pertinent data you can find on linux performance will apply. I don't know if the kernel in general makes use of the new SIMD instructions...you'd be most likely to find these in stuff like the software RAID parity calculations and encryption code, but I don't know for sure how many optimizations have made it into the code. I *can* tell you none of these are in my existing kernels, which are compiled for a 486 system, and are compiled on a P-90 (so even if the makefiles are smart enough to optimize for the local architecture, they won't find any MMX instructions, much less any SIMD stuff). Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
