Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:20:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:20:10 -0400 Received: from 2-225.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br ([200.193.160.225]:55176 "EHLO 2-225.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:20:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 23:24:58 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@imladris.surriel.com To: Larry McVoy cc: Ulrich Drepper , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1 In-Reply-To: <20020919191739.A25500@work.bitmover.com> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 858 Lines: 29 On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 11:01:33PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > 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? I agree, it's pretty silly. But still, I was curious how they managed to achieve it ;) OTOH, some applications are known for sillyness ... cheers, Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Spamtraps of the month: september@surriel.com trac@trac.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/