On Wednesday 12 January 2005 04:22 pm, Robert Olsson wrote:
> Jeremy M. Guthrie writes:
> > I am now getting some push back from the project manager on this
> > performance problem. I am wondering if you think faster CPUs will
> > a) help relieve the symptoms of this problem
> > b) not help because now we will hit a '# of routes in the route-cache'
> > problem
> > c) or will help to a point till the # interrupts come back and bite us.
>
> Back out the patch I sent.and have hardirq's to run RX-softirq as you
> did before but something is very wrong. You didn't answer if there were
> other load on the machine...
I have backed out. As for the load, this box only does policy routing. Any
other functions it performs are part of its automated system to download the
next days policy-routing config.
> route-cache can probably be tuned you as have four times the linear seach
> I see in one PIII system at 110 kpps w. production traffic.
How would I go about tuning that?
> Of course the non-engineering solution is to buy more CPU... :-)
That is good to know. This will help me calm the situation a bit. 8)
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