Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jun 2001 15:26:04 -0600 | From | Victor Yodaiken <> | Subject | Re: Why use threads ( was: Alan Cox quote?) |
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On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 02:01:16PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > It's very hard to use processes for this purpose. Consider, for example, a > web server. You don't want to use one process for each client because that > would limit your scalability (16,000 clients would become difficult, and > with threads it's trivial). You don't want to use one thread for each client
How is it trivial? How do you debug a 16,000 thread application?
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