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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 11:01:33PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> 
> >    Initial confirmations were test runs with huge numbers of threads.
> >    Even on IA-32 with its limited address space and memory handling
> >    running 100,000 concurrent threads was no problem at all,
> 
> So, where did you put those 800 MB of kernel stacks needed for
> 100,000 threads ?

Come on, you and I normally agree, but 100,000 threads?  Where is the need
for that?  More importantly, is there any realistic application that can 
use 100,000 threads where the kernel stack is 0 but the user level stack
doesn't have exactly the same problem?  The kernel can be perfect, i.e.,
cost zero, and you still have a problem.
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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 
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