[c-nsp] Your opinions on router throughput

[Joseph Jackson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net 
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Gert Doering
> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 1:24 AM
> To: Tony Varriale
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Your opinions on router throughput
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 01:58:13AM -0500, Tony Varriale wrote:
> > Yeah...I would agree.  I could show an NPE300 that isn't pushing 
> > 10mbps and runs around 70% average CPU (bounces off the rev 
> limiter constantly).
> > Obviously it's doing a lot of crap...but hey.
> 
> If you have a NPE300 that's at 70% due to 10 Mbit of traffic, 
> something is *seriously* wrong.  Like "CEF and fast switching 
> turned off" or "massive BGP instabilities nearby".
> 
> gert

I would have to agree with Gert.  I have an NPE300 that regualary pushes
20-30 megs of traffic and the CPU never goes above 10%,  Now when we do
backups across it and it pushes close to 100megs it gets to be around
30-40%.