System requirements for BIRD

[Ruben Laban]

Hi Sergey,

On 23-12-2013 13:53, Sergey Popovich wrote:
> Also having threads (Hyper-Threading) has no good effect on traffic forwarding
> workloads, as CPU cache is shared between physical cores, causing more cache
> misses and thus lower performance.

This one I should keep in mind myself, hadn't really thought of that 
one. While we're at this topic, do you happen to have some more 
(effective) changes/configurations to improve your max throughput?

For instance, you mentioned the disabling of connection tracking. Which 
method do you use for that? Blacklist the modules or smart use of the 
NOTRACK netfilter target?

I'm currently about to replace some of my software routers, and have 
been looking around for optimizations like these.

Regards,
Ruben