[c-nsp] 7200 G1/G2 QoS/NBAR performance

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On 1/06/2010 12:23 AM, Nick Celebic wrote:
> I tried tagging 600Mb worth of traffic on a G1, and that brought the
> routers to it's knees with 100% CPU.  Given that all QoS in a 7200 is
> done in software, are there any ballpark numbers used to calculate how
> much throughput you can get using QoS on these NPEs?
>    
600Mbps is a fair bit of traffic, had a collegue nbar an interface of a 
router doing around 200Mbps raised the cpu from ~30% to ~50%, not sure 
if that helps. As for QoS, you meantioned marking, are you just marking 
packets or applying queing policies. Post the policy might help.

-James.