[c-nsp] Throughput - 7204VXR

[Chris Cappuccio]

Skeeve Stevens [skeeve at skeeve.org] wrote:
> >
> >  7200-NPE300  20,000          300,000        153,600,000
> >  7200-NPE400  20,000          400,000        204,800,000
> 
> These are only theoretical figures. You might expect 5-30% less in real life
> applications.
> 

To explain further, i've been able to induce livelock with 70,000 pps on
an NPE-300.  That's far away from 300,000... And that's with a very minimal
configuration, e.g., SNMP and 'router bgp' turned on, but not actually
doing anything.  And with CEF.

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