Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Threads question | Date | Sat, 26 Apr 1997 15:38:43 +0100 (BST) |
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> A combo (clone<->lib) threading approach lets you do these sorts of things > easily. Telling the IRC designers "You shouldn't support more than 1000 > connections per server" is kind of unrealistic, isn't it?
Yes, but it doesn't mean 1000 threads is the right answer. Equally more than one may well perform better because you can queue multiple kernel I/O requests (which for ircd is quite a lot). Probably 1 and 1 per processor is all that is needed
Alan
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