jared r r spiegel wrote:
i'd VERY much like to see someone put up a short little www-type
( or whatever ) illustration of how they were really experiencing
a service-affecting performance degredation which was solved by
the use of 'quick' in their ruleset.
For what it's worth, I've never found that performance is as much the
issue as clarity; if I am certain that I want evaluation to stop in
that particular case, then it needs to stop there, period. Any further
evaluation is at best a waste of time and can potentially cause weird
errors when rules you _thought_ were in effect are superseded by later
rules. Administration is hard enough without providing nesting spots
for exciting new types of bug to eat up all your available time. >;->
even little soekrises are really hurting for speed some times, but
from my small experience with them one would probably end up gagging
on interrupts before one would run into a brick wall due to not using
'quick' a lot.
I find myself wishing for more memory on the Soekris before I wish for
more CPU. (Though honestly, a little more of both wouldn't hurt.)
Which brings up an interesting point: is anybody else irritated that
the Routerboard 532 has only 32 MB of memory, and that soldered on
board? Is there any particularly good reason these manufacturers don't
stick a SODIMM slot on the board and let _us_ decide how much memory it
needs? I'd be thrilled if someone had a 400/500-MHz MIPS board with
a SODIMM slot, I almost wouldn't care what else was on it. I've also
had scant luck Googling for ATX/uATX form-factor MIPS boards in that
clock range anywhere. Do such things exist, or is this one of those
things that one can find only in the Great Machineroom in the Sky?
I'd like just a tiny bit more oomph and expandability than the Soekris
has, but not that much more.
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