Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:47:22 -0400 (EDT) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: 100,000 threads? [was: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1] |
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> the extreme high-end of threading typically uses very controlled > applications and very small user level stacks. > > as to the question of why so many threads, the answer is because we can :) > This, besides demonstrating some of the recent scalability advances, gives > us the warm fuzzy feeling that things are right in this area. I mean, > there are architectures where Linux could map a petabyte of RAM just fine, > even though that might not be something we desperately need today.
I think testing at these high numbers is a good proof of scalability, although response and stability are also important. Before I went to NGPT I had a fair bit of problem with learning experiences after threads got beyond 200 or so.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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