rincebrain

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   by rincebrain 14y ago

   I actually spoke to them about doing a similar thing, and they said they were using a GPU because they were pushing lots of sub-1500 MTU packets, and that commodity h/w could probably saturate multiple 10GbE interfaces that were just doing
2. 1322.▲
   by rincebrain 14y ago

   Possibly technically, but ZFS's hashes IIRC are more nontrivial to collide than CRC32 by default [for the data checksum/metadata checksum, fletcher/sha256/[etc]]. I can't even guess about the pathology of the dedup code. I want to say that
3. 1323.▲
   by rincebrain 14y ago

   I believe that the disconnect here is that you are claiming the need for >4GB of RAM per process is a "niche market", while many others here are claiming it is something that many applications today would have an immediate use case for,
4. 1324.▲
   by rincebrain 14y ago

   Not precisely. 4 in 10 chance that if they notice you're infected, you'll die - doesn't count all the countless people who are infected but not immunocompromised, so their bodies keep the infections in check or actively destroy them.
5. 1325.▲
   by rincebrain 14y ago

   Check your day job's rules on who owns things you work on before anything else happens.