Messages in this thread | | | From | "Keith Bottner" <> | Subject | RE: Interesting analysis of linux kernel threading by IBM | Date | Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:11:38 -0600 |
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I have been trying to follow this thread but I seem to have missed the URL or reference to the IBM analysis that is under discussion. Could someone who has participated in this message change please repost the URL or the reference?
Thanks,
Keith Bottner kbottner@istation.com
-----Original Message----- From: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu [mailto:owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu]On Behalf Of Davide Libenzi Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 7:41 AM To: Peter Rival Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Interesting analysis of linux kernel threading by IBM
Thursday, January 20, 2000 3:14 PM Peter Rival <frival@zk3.dec.com> wrote : > No offense, but it is this type of thinking that will keep Linux out of the > datacenter. What you must say it is not a typical (or realistic) workload _for > me_. Hundreds of tasks is trivial here - we have systems running with well over > 100 users actively working that are two or more generations old (that's a much > bigger thing for Alpha than for Intel). On our newer systems we fully expect > hundreds, if not thousands, of tasks. The more commercially accepted Linux > becomes, the more common large configurations are going to be, and we should be > thinking about that now - not when we're being shot all over creation for not > doing what everyone said we could (ala WinNT). >
I can only agree here given that there are practically no costs to sustain under normal situations. And improvements are concrete under high load.
Cheers, Davide.
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