Re[2]: routing for 1000 users and 10Mbit internet.

From: hugle (hugle_at_vkt.lt)
Date: 05/31/04

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    Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 19:36:00 +0300
To: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

    FG> On Mon, 31 May 2004, hugle wrote:

    >> The question in what machine do i need?
    >> What CPU and how much of ram ?

    FG> I set up a firewall for more than 300 users, a DMZ with a public webserver,
    FG> webmail and MX on a PII-350MHz with 128 MB RAM.
    dammit..
    why then my users eats so much CPU?
    look:
    CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% system, 38.0% interrupt, 61.2% idle
    Mem: 21M Active, 177M Inact, 133M Wired, 1228K Cache, 199M Buf, 1677M Free

    I have only 61% idle ?
    usualy i have ~50 idle..
    now I have P4 2.4GHZ

    maybe my setup is bad (kernel I mean)?
    ps. what those interrupt means?

    FG> On another client, I set up a firewall for 50 users with a Pentium 90MHz
    FG> with 64MB RAM.

    >> dual or single processor ?

    FG> One. Don't waste you money. A firewall isn't very CPU intensive. And given
    FG> the fact that ipf works at the IP stack level, I don't think you can have
    FG> more than one thread active at a time messing with the IP data structures.

    FG> Fer

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