Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:44:06 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: fix CONFIG_HIGHPTE |
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On 8 Aug 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 15:51, Rik van Riel wrote: > > Linux isn't yet up to having 500 simultaneous interactive > > users, in fact I don't think it has ever been up to this > > situation. > > It works suprisingly well. I know people who are doing it. It does not > work when those users are all running arbitarly large jobs. In most > conventional (non student compile) type setups 500 is fine. The O(1) > scheduler and highio are pretty essential as is a real I/O subsystem.
Agreed, it'll work when things are well behaved and the system isn't overloaded.
However, having been a curious student myself I'm pretty sure student workloads aren't always well behaved and do have a tendency to overload the system once in a while.
I'm not sure Linux will be able to deal with the "I wonder what happens if I ..." type students ;)
regards,
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