[Pc_Support] Re: ViA C3 for IPCop? Yes/no?

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 07:48 -0400, William Warren wrote:
> FPU is hammered due to the packet analysis of snort.  Also the data 
> analysis Dansguardian does is also very FPU intensive.  As i said squid 
> isn't cpu intensive at all..the other two(dansguardian and snort) are 
> highly fpu intensive.

Hmmm, why are they using the FPU?  That just doesn't make sense to me.
The only reason to use the FPU would be on the original Pentium (not Pro
or later) because of its buggy ALU.  I just have no idea where the FPU
would be useful for what type of analysis.


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