Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 15000+ processes -- poor performance ?!

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:24:53 -0800


On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:53:45PM -0800, Till Immanuel Patzschke wrote:
>> forgot the kernel version (2.4.20aa1)...

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 05:15:41PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 2.4.20aa1 is missing some of the infrastructure to reduce the cpu
> consumption under high process count loads, but that's not going to
> help you anyway. 150K processes is not going to be feasible in the
> immediate future (months or longer away) so you'll have to figure out
> how to take that into account.

Er, sorry, on a brief rereading my eyes deceived me and I thought an
extra zero got in there. 15K is fine on 2.5 + patches.

Bill
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