Re: [Lse-tech] On Large Number of Threads

[Rik v. R. <ri...@co...>]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Gerrit Huizenga wrote:

> Same is true in most web serving and database applications.
> Look at the number of people that post about getting /.'ed and
> have their machine go down or become unreasonably slow.  The
> Linux servers are suffering from a bad scheduler at that point.

Well, actually most of these machines are getting very
slow because they don't have the memory to handle all
the incoming requests (due to the 1 process per request
thing).

What would be needed for most of these situations seems
to be load control ... something I want to implement but
haven't had much time for yet.

regards,

Rik
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