Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 12:59:06 -0800 From: Richard Stanford <richards@herald.net> To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: changed to: Frac T3? Message-ID: <32921F9A.48EA@herald.net> References: <199611191536.KAA07083@etinc.com>
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dennis wrote: > > > >In fact, there is a _great_ deal of painful experience in dealing with > >routers where there isn't quite enough CPU time to get everything done. > >Routing protocols are basically soft real-time distributed systems. When > >they get delayed, they tend to collapse in spectacular ways. As a result, > >putting any significant non-routing load on a router is a _really_ bad > >idea. > > that's 'cause you've been working with machines that have stinky little CPUs > :-) I would hazard a guess that having a couple of large compiles kicked off at the same time would start to cause the routing system a little stress -- no matter what cpu was in the box. Difference would be how long the stress lasted. -Richard
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