On 28/01/2008, Geoff Steckel  wrote:

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> 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  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

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-Lawrence