Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 25 Aug 2001 13:34:36 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [resent PATCH] Re: very slow parallel read performance |
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On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Marc A. Lehmann wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 12:50:51PM -0300, Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> wrote: > > Remember NL.linux.org a few weeks back, where a difference of > > 10 FTP users more or less was the difference between a system > > load of 3 and a system load of 250 ? ;) > > OTOH, servers the use a single process or thread per connection are > destined to fail under load ;)
That wouldn't have made a big difference in this case, except that one process doing readahead window thrashing with its own readahead data would have fallen over even worse ...
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