Device polling performance

[TM4525 at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/25/04 4:12:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mike at sentex.net 
writes:
>FreeBSD team for developing a stack that uses no resources.

.... For the record, what I was saying was that a decent machine (e.g. 2.4 
PIV) should be able to push 200,000 packets per second with decent NICs 
(em, or fxp) and with a median packet size (see www.caida.org) of about 540 
bytes, that works out to ~ 100Mb/s.
No you didn't, you said that 200Kpps would show almost no cpu usage, which
is utterly ridiculous.

Mike at sentex.net previously wrote:

"Given a decent CPU, you wont see very much of a load average at all in the 
200Kpps / 100Mb range."