Pppoe and performance vs hardware
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hi,
do somebody have some performances figures to share ?
I'm looking for a box that should support around 500 pppoe users and therefore that should support around 100mbits of traffic permanently.Do somebody have any idea of the hardware i need to accomplish this ?
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we run about 50 users per box at the moment with cpu at about 30%
and memory at 30% this is running pfsense with ospf pf and a couple of
other things. with about 2-4 mb useage.266 mhz wrap baord with 128 mb ram.
our scale point is about 1500 users with 2 gb ram and dual 2.0ghz opteron.
i dont know what it really will need till we get there though.266*0.30 = 79.50 for each 50 users
79.50 / 50 = 1.6 for each user1.6 * 1500 = 2396mhz which should allow for lots of overhead there.
ram
128 * 0.30= 38.4 for each 50 users
38.4 / 50 =0.78 for each user
0.78 * 1500 = 1152mb for 1500 users
this reconciles with what i have been told before
1 gb for each 1000 users and 2 ghz
hope it helps
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Nice Aldo, keep us updated how these values scale when you have the real 1500 user setup ;D