Manuel Kasper wrote:

>On 26.03.2005 15:47 -0500, Chris Buechler wrote:
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>>Seems that any of the 5.3-based betas have an issue with handling
>>huge numbers of packets.  BitTorrent is one easy way to replicate
>>the problem.
>>
>>With a 4501 and 1.2b7, downloading about 400 KBps and uploading 2-3
>>KBps on BitTorrent pegs the CPU on m0n0wall at 100%.  With 1.2b3 and
>>earlier I used BT without any issues.
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>Here's a little performance comparison between 1.2b3 and 1.2b7 in the
>default configuration (+ one inbound NAT/firewall rule) on a net4801
>using iperf (in TCP mode for throughput and in UDP mode with minimal
>packet size for pps):
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>
Is it CPU related or is there some other performance limiting factor?

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