Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 05:33:24PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: >> If it's really only a web server, then you probably don't >> need the USB ports. In that case you should remove ohci >> and ehci from your kernel. The USB interrupt handler is >> quite heavy-weight, so it can have a noticeable impact if >> the interrupt is shared with other devices. > > I'll agree with this (re: webservers not needing USB), except in > regards to one item: keyboards.
Yup. And iLO. In fact, it appears that there's some builtin connection between USB, iLO, ethernet and ciss - changing IRQ of one of them in BIOS changes it for all of them :( > finished remove the keyboard and leave. PS/2 was never intended > to be hot-swappable, and as I'm sure many can attest to, removing And it's shaped worse than USB. > Summary: ukbd is one reason USB is useful on servers. Yes. From what I can see, these days the number of servers *without any* PS/2 connectors is passing 50%. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
