On Monday 01 September 2003 19:20, Mathew Binkley wrote: > So our bridging firewall achieves ~84% of full line speed. However, > during testing the firewall had a load level of 4.3. There doesn't > appear to be any packet loss, but I'm not sure if it is affecting > latency or not. Does anyone know a good way of testing that? The > firewall console is completely frozen when it's under that stress.
...too many interrupts... > Does OpenBSD 3.3 not support zero-copy? Or is there something trivial > I'm missing here? I wouldn't have expecting bridging to put that kind > of load on the CPU. Device Polling is the answer... tedu@ said he was working on it. I hope someone will find time to port FreeBSD code. Here you can find an explanation with code. http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/polling/ Ed
