On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:48 AM, System Administrator <ad...@bitwise.net> wrote: > On 11 Feb 2010 at 23:15, Dirk Mast wrote: > >> Daniel Ouellet wrote: >> >> > On 2/11/10 2:46 PM, Henning Brauer wrote: >> >> disk i/o is irrelevant. you will need a very very very fast >> opengl >> >> capable graphics card with loads of memory of course. >> > >> > ??? >> > >> > I am sure I am missing something big here, but Fast Video Card >> with >> > OpenGL for router? Are you trying to look live every packets routed >> here? >> > >> > If I may asked Henning, please give me a clue stick as that part I >> > really do not understand what so ever. No bunt intended, I just do >> not >> > understand that at all, please help me get it? What Video have to >> do >> > with routing? >> > >> > Best, >> > >> > Daniel >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF7MroTLDfU >> > > Actually I was hoping that if it is nothing more than sarcasm Henning > would give a hint -- I'm old enough to remember earlier generations of > i386 architecture where poorly designed graphics card would affect the > entire bus performance to slow down all kinds of I/O (disk, lan, etc.) > >
That's why you see very few servers with video cards. Even well-designed cards can rob the system of precious, precious I/O. Same goes for sound cards (which, from what I've heard, used to create havoc by not lowering its IRQ after each request), floppy drives, anything not needed for the system to function basically. -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse
