On 28/01/2008, Geoff Steckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lord Sporkton wrote: > > what keywords should be be searching for? > > i have no idea what this would be called? > > > > On 28/01/2008, johan beisser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Jan 27, 2008, at 9:24 PM, Lord Sporkton wrote: > >> > >>> I am setting up a duel core server, the server will be doing 2 things, > >>> firewall/routing and user-services > >>> > >>> since my needs are pretty small for this server and its a duel 2.0 > >>> 64bit i was hoping to sort of partition the cpus such that > >>> firewalling/kernel processes get one processor and user services like > >>> webhosting, mail, fileserver, and all userland gets the other > >>> processor, that way my firewall wont be bothered by anything else im > >>> doing. > >> Multiple CPU systems don't work like that, generally. > In general, you either don't want it or the system can't do it. > > Firewall software and routing run in the kernel and therefore have > very high priority. They will run regardless of any user services > except in rare and very ugly cases. > > Partitioning like you are asking for is done on extremely large > and complex systems. > > hope this helps > geoff steckel >
well my main concern was that things like fileserver, monitoring, hosting, other user services might spike the cpu and cause degradation on the firewall/router functions, however Geoff's statement seems to indicate that shouldnt be a problem -- -Lawrence
