Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: real POSIX.1b semaphores | From | David Wuertele <> | Date | 21 Nov 1996 12:14:26 +0900 |
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"David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu> writes:
> 4 billion processes, times sizeof(struct task_struct), that alone is > around 2 terabytes. In reality 4 billion processes would take up at a > minimum around 6 or 7 terabytes. I give it 5 or 6 years for this to > matter at all. ;-) > > Even with a million users on a single machine (even a NUMA one!) each > of them would need to spawn 4,000 processes to reach this level of > insanity...
Or turn it around: how about applications where a single request can generate a million processes? Maybe a linux layer on top of a multi-million node network microkernel, acting as a database server to a few thousand clients?
Or am I from outer space?
Dave
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