the super routeros router

tanxw998 · March 22, 2011, 1:20pm

this is working router
ver 5.0RC5

CPU q9650
nic 82571 X 2

when the traffic < 550M , is very OK ，
wehn the traffic > 550m, the ping lost 2% packet , every CPU core < 100%。

wish improve it

alexspils · March 22, 2011, 6:16pm

show irq table plz

janisk · March 23, 2011, 8:15am

you can check /tool profile to see what uses your CPU power

macgaiver · March 23, 2011, 12:39pm

try to disable RPS and assign active interfaces to different CPUs via IRQ load balancing

tgrand · March 23, 2011, 10:02pm

We have a pair of systems with i5 QuadCore with 8 Copper GigE Ports.
We can run Bandwidthtest from device to device and do 1Gbps in both directions without going over 2% CPU resource, and that is with connection tracking on.