Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Sep 2002 19:17:39 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1 |
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On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 11:01:33PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > > Initial confirmations were test runs with huge numbers of threads. > > Even on IA-32 with its limited address space and memory handling > > running 100,000 concurrent threads was no problem at all, > > So, where did you put those 800 MB of kernel stacks needed for > 100,000 threads ?
Come on, you and I normally agree, but 100,000 threads? Where is the need for that? More importantly, is there any realistic application that can use 100,000 threads where the kernel stack is 0 but the user level stack doesn't have exactly the same problem? The kernel can be perfect, i.e., cost zero, and you still have a problem. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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