Paul Mansfield wrote: > Bill Marquette wrote: >> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Scott Ullrich <sullr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Dimitri Rodis >>> <dimit...@integritasystems.com> wrote: >>>> My understanding is that Giant lock is gone from the FreeBSD network stack >>>> in 8: >>>> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/arch/2009-04/msg00075.html >>> PF is still protected by one "giant" lock and does not scale across all >>> CPUs. >> Exactly. The network stack itself not being under giant is the only >> reason you achieve _any_ amount of scaling past one CPU - that and > > has anyone benchmarked pfSense on a decent corei6 system for comparison > with opteron and older Xeon 54,53 etc?
d'oh - typo - corei7 > > I ask 'cos we're going to have a few dell 2950 and r710s available for > this sort of thing for a short while during a colo build-out. Has anyone > written up a standardised test for pfsense that would be useful? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
