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Subject: Re: linux 2.2.19pre and thttpd (VM-global problem?)
To: andrea@suse.de (Andrea Arcangeli)
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 18:50:18 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: ppetru@ppetru.net (Petru Paler), pegasus@telemach.net (Jure Pecar),
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> On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 09:38:40AM +0200, Petru Paler wrote:
> > This is one of the main thttpd design points: run in a select() loop. Since
> > it is intended for mainly static workloads, it performs quite well...
> 
> It can't scale in SMP.

Your cgi will keep the other CPU occupied, or run two of them. thttpd has
superb scaling properties compared to say apache.

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