Re: Do I need to switch to MP system?

2008-04-08 Thread B A
Probably sound strange, but when I have switched to MP kernel server load droped to ~1% of interrupts. So looks like MP kernel has worse userspace performance, but better interrupt handling. 02.04.08, 00:29, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 2008-04-01, B A [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Do I need to switch to MP system?

2008-04-02 Thread Vinicius Vianna
Maybe it would be easier to just upgrade your NIC's to some intel em ones, it have low interrupt usage, don't know about bge on high usage. Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008-04-01, B A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have OpenBSD acting as router+IPsec vpn concentrator. Our company expanding, so

Re: Do I need to switch to MP system?

2008-04-02 Thread Joe
On Apr 2, 2008, at 2:52 AM, Vinicius Vianna wrote: Maybe it would be easier to just upgrade your NIC's to some intel em ones, it have low interrupt usage, don't know about bge on high usage. I'm interested to the see the results if the OP does this. I've got some similar boxes with bge

Re: Do I need to switch to MP system?

2008-04-02 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-04-02, Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 2, 2008, at 2:52 AM, Vinicius Vianna wrote: Maybe it would be easier to just upgrade your NIC's to some intel em ones, it have low interrupt usage, don't know about bge on high usage. I'm interested to the see the results if the OP

Do I need to switch to MP system?

2008-04-01 Thread B A
Hello! We have OpenBSD acting as router+IPsec vpn concentrator. Our company expanding, so I noticed what interrupt in top sometimes jumps to 30-40%, and always about ~25% in average. Server is DL360 server with bge0 and bge1. So I want to upgrade to newer multicore system. Can it help? Is

Re: Do I need to switch to MP system?

2008-04-01 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-04-01, B A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have OpenBSD acting as router+IPsec vpn concentrator. Our company expanding, so I noticed what interrupt in top sometimes jumps to 30-40%, and always about ~25% in average. Server is DL360 server with bge0 and bge1. So I want to upgrade to newer