Performance/lockup issues with FreeBSD as a router

Hroi Sigurdsson hroi at ngdc.net
Thu May 26 12:08:36 PDT 2005


Peter Kieser wrote:

> Yes, I have -- some fxp and ed cards.

Have you tried without "optimizing"? Most of your optimizations are for 
socket and TCP buffers, only servers need that. A router just forwards 
packets.
What does netstat -m say and the "CPU Usage:" column in top? Check the 
interrupt load. Try if polling(4) helps.

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