> > hardware crypto accellerators
>
> The soekris ones work and are cheap. I thougt I saw posts that show
> openssl -speed on today's fast cpu's being faster than the accel
> cards. Disk crypto is symmetric, not initial pki session setup.
The accel cards probably don't get updated as often as cpu
> nice only affects userland
Well, you can set {id,rt}prio and nice on kernel processes. Then
look at top to see the nice column change. Have no idea what effect
it has nor what the non '-' chars on those procs in that column
mean.
> Do you *need* geli+zfs?
Encryption = required.
ZFS... well I l
Hi,
I'm running 7.2-p3 on 2x HP BL465c blade servers, one of which performs very
poorly. Both have the same RAID controller and 2 x 146GB 10k SAS disks
configured in RAID-1. Both controllers have write-cache enabled. Both
servers are running the same BIOS and firmware versions. Neither servers are
Hello Invernizzi,
First of all I didn't catch for what task you are tuning.
For forwarding or for transfer?
In any case you should start with minimal configuration (no netgraph
modules, no any firewall).
Choose a test similiar to your typical load.
Provide us with test result, cpu consumption
