We are now (2006) in an era where the CPU is no longer rate determining in an LVS director. Ratz 20 Feb 2006 The processor never is an issue regarding LVS unless your NIC is so badly designed that the CPU would need to take over the packet processing ;) (a non-LVS article on Configuring large scale unix clusters by Dan Kegel.) The article performance data for a single realserver LVS, shows how to