Re: fix CONFIG_HIGHPTE

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
08 Aug 2002 20:59:17 +0100


On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 15:51, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Linux isn't yet up to having 500 simultaneous interactive
> users, in fact I don't think it has ever been up to this
> situation.

It works suprisingly well. I know people who are doing it. It does not
work when those users are all running arbitarly large jobs. In most
conventional (non student compile) type setups 500 is fine. The O(1)
scheduler and highio are pretty essential as is a real I/O subsystem.

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