On 12 Feb 2010 at 11:44, Aaron Mason wrote: > 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.
They might not have physical add-in cards, but all i386/amd64 servers have graphics hardware attached to some interconnect bus. Otherwise they would not be able to paste those Microsoft Windows stickers. And on many the only way to turn off the on-board (often inferior) graphics hardware is to insert an add-in card... > -- > Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict > I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse
