Re: Hardware Requirements for qdisc htb/sfq

[Mohan Sundaram <mohan.tux@xxxxxxxxx>]

Shane McKinley wrote:
> I have been searching everywhere for some kind of guidelines, but I see
> none. If anyone could give me a round about answer that would point me
> in the right direction I would be obliged.
>
> This is what I have been looking at:
>
> 2.0GHz Dual-Core Xeon, 4GB 667MGz RAM, 2x1Gbit Network Interfaces.
>
> Is this overkill?
Speed normally seen in PPS. The 7200 routes approx 1M PPS. I ran our own 
routing and classification s/w on a AMD Opteron 2Ghz, 1GB RAM and got 
1.1M PPS. Linux Kernel gave approx 700K PPS.

IMHO your h/w is way oversized but why not? H/w is cheap nowadays.

Mohan
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