[LARTC] Re: using HTB with thousands of classes

[Abhijit Menon-Sen]

Hi Marek.

At 2007-10-03 14:44:29 +0200, marek at piasta.pl wrote:
>
> I'm using HTB to shape traffic generated by ~3000 users using hashing
> filters. It works OK and is cpu conservative (thanks to hashing).

Thanks, that's useful to know.

> Load tc commands using "batch" option (-b) of tc binary

Yes, that's a very good point. (I already do this.)

> I'm curious about one thing. What kind of hardware are you planning to
> use for that router?

Right now we have one HP ProLiant DL380 G5 machine, with a 2GHz Xeon
processor and 2GB of memory.

Part of the reason I posted was because I wanted to get a better idea of
how much CPU/memory I would need for a setup that needed to handle some
15k classes with bandwidth limits of ~64kbit each.

What hardware are you using for your 3k-user router?

-- ams