RE: Performance of CEF over Fast Switching

2001-02-16 Thread Phillip Heller
I honestly don't have much experience with it on lower end platforms. The two or three cases I can think of, it has only made a ~ 10% difference. In situations with higher-end hardware (7513, etc), it can drop utilization by 30% or more. If cef is run distributed, the utilization is cut even mo

Re: Performance of CEF over Fast Switching

2001-02-16 Thread John Neiberger
We have a 7513 as our backbone router and pre-12.0 it was running on average at maybe 9-10% CPU. After upgrading to 12.1 and turning on CEF, that dropped to around 5%. That's really not a good test because we were hardly pushing the thing to begin with. Still, it does seem to make a noticabl