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> PF version runs on multiple cpus (OpenBSD's version is more advanced though)

What is "more advanced" about it?

> (yes, you can compile a FreeBSD kernel with ALTQ, but it's said to be buggy with SMP.)

not that we've seen in 300,000 installs.



I will admit to not having tried it. This is what I read when I was researching why it wasn't enabled by default.

Any thoughts on why they leave it off out of the box, then? I know it's not crazy hard to build a kernel (used to have to do it to get sound support in the 4.x series), but I'd rather not build kernels if I don't have to =)


ATLQ slows down throughput and ads CPU overhead, that's why is disabled by default... Because most users don't need it anyway.




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