Re: Quick question.

["Alexei Roudnev" <alex () relcom net>]

Just again. I do not try to explain, I report observations -:).



> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote:
> > I said - it WORKS. 1 spin - warning - someone opens system and kills a
run
> > away process... Never saw 2 spins (because first one was killed before
> > second one). Btw, such systems (2 CPU) are even more stable in case of
run
> > away device drivers.
>
> I call crapola. Modern _modern_ systems may have _some_ of the device
drivers
> running on seperate CPUs but they're still running in kernel mode.
>
> A runaway device driver means you're toast.
>
> Now, a very very busy device, thats a seperate story. Having one CPU
> handle all of your disk/network IO and the second CPU handle all of your
> processes may alleviate some of the pain. May. There's more to it than
> just offloading stuff. If your processes are all _depending_ on IO to
> occur then you may end up with random crappy starvation situations.
>
> This has nothing to do with NANOG. Lets talk about DCEF bugs or something.
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> Adrian
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