Re: fix CONFIG_HIGHPTE

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:22:01 -0700


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.

On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 08:59:17PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.

Could you put me and/or Rik in contact with them so we can get a better
grip on their issues and characteristics of their workload?

Thanks,
Bill
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