Hi all
I want to know what is your cpu load on your Core Mikrotik.
I have AMD 1.4ghz with 512MB ram, HD 40gb, 6 NICs (all on 1 bridge).
This router manage 12mbps (real) of internet, have 320 pppoe connection (average), webproxy and a few rules of firewall.
The cpu average is 90-100%. I think that it 's high value.
What is your value?
Maxi
EDIT: i create this post on wrong section, sorry
Athlon64 1.8ghz with 512mb of Ram
4 Wireless Interfaces with Polling and Nstream turned on
PPPoE Server
Hotspot Server
70-80% Useage
This is from one of my customers;
single Xeon 2.6 ghz (512kb cache)
on average 730 users
firewall, shaping (for all)
averages 40% cpu load
741 users connected when i looked at the cpu graph
How many wireless interfaces you got on that?
none, but i really shouldn’t have said anything earlier.
Because i investigated why it had such “high cpu load” and now i reduced it to a stable below 20%. The amount of pppoe users online got reduced to 700 in the fixing.
I am not kidding but actually pretty impressed. I didn’t know it had so wrong BIOS settings.
How-much traffic ?
100 or so PPPoE sessions
Queue trees for common protocols - PCQ for limiting each
4Mbps max througput
P4 2.4GHz w/256Mb DDR
Never above 10%
This is the same with three sites.
Running hotspots on WRAP 1’s and with say about 10 users online sharing a 1.5/256 DSL connection via wifi it wouldn’t go above 10% either.
Actually I’ve never really seen high loads on a box running routeros, even when playing with IPSec tunnels across wifi links at full throughput.
2,4ghz celeron,256mb ram one radio card.Normaly about 10% cpu load..Core router with trafic marking and about 1159 qos, 3.2 pentium with 512mb ram and hypertreading, load generaly 20-30%
What is your througput??
this core mikrotik have webproxy?
I will have about 700 users (average) with pppoe and i want to know what is the best CPU and proccessor to buy
Maxi
Simple routing, firewall, and 3 site IPSec interconnect = never above 4%
4X band width control.., Netstream monitoring
Env. = 1X Xeon, 1GB ram, 2X Gig E. 2X T1 lines bound to 3Mb.
Users = 80 to 100 devices.
Craig
Bandwidth averaging at night time is 15mbit+20mbit. Night time is when upload is more than download (peer2peer traffic is unrestricted).
Webproxy is not a good idea in a service provider scenario.
I can’t recommend having 700 users on a single pppoe terminator.
The optimal design to drive a low power unit is contradicting design for a high power pppoe router with lots of users. No matter how powerful the hardware is, the software is not designed for it.
Just to mention a problem as example; All queues (seem to) get reinstalled each time a user log in which in turn pose real problems (packet loss, tcp synchronisation issues).
About the cpus, code cache size is often better than gigahertz. Packet forwarding is about moving in a relativly small loop that benefits greatly from a large code cache.
AMD tends to make much better cpus than Intel but people tend to stick them in low cost, low end, no name motherboards. You are only as strong as your weakest link. This holds true for most non-Intel brands unfortunatly.
Since this is starting to go way off topic, to continue the discussion (if you can call it that), you may reach me at; lists@wm-access.no
Just to mention a problem as example; All queues (seem to) get reinstalled each time a user log in which in turn pose real problems (packet loss, tcp synchronisation issues).
this is fixed in 2.9.19
software is not designed for it
it is