* Joe Warren-Meeks  [2008-04-14 17:53]:

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> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 05:38:21PM +0200, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:

>

> Hey there,

>

> > According several messages I've read from Henning or Daniel in present

> > and @pf list, there are not any benefits in run PF with MP kernels (and

> > multi-processor boxes, of course). Even you can get a poor performance

> > that uni-processor kernel/box.

>

> If the box was only doing pf stuff, then that would be correct. If you

> were to put a bunch of ftp-proxys on there too, then MP would help, no?

ftp-proxies, not really.
bloated proxies like squid, maybe pretending to try to save windows/macos

boxes from the inevitable using some form of content scanning - yes, MP

can be useful.
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