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TCP CRR Responder CPU Utilization
Figure 8 and Table 8 show CPU utilization rates for the responder system in CRR tests with varying
packet sizes.
Figure 8 TCP CRR Responder CPU Utilization
TCP CRR Responder CPU Utilization
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
1/1 1460/1460 128/8192 180/350
Request/Reply Packet Size (Bytes)
CPU Utilization (%)
No IPFilter
IPFilter without Rules
IPFilter with Rules
Table 8 TCP CRR Responder CPU Utilization
Request/Response
Packet Sizes
(Bytes)
CPU Utilization
without IPFilter (%)
CPU Utilization with IPFilter
and No Rules (%)
CPU Utilization with IPFilter
Rules (%)
1/1 9.5 9.04
(less than 0.00% increase)
10.85
(14.21% increase)
1460/1460 5.31 6.08
(14.50% increase)
6.02
(13.37% increase)
128/8192 7.62 8.16
(7.09% increase)
9.96
(30.71% increase)
180/350 8.52 8.87
(4.11% increase)
10.67
(25.23% increase)