Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 14:45:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 14:45:02 -0500 Received: from Cantor.suse.de ([194.112.123.193]:5636 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 14:44:54 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 20:14:25 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Alan Cox , Petru Paler , Jure Pecar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, thttpd@bomb.acme.com Subject: Re: linux 2.2.19pre and thttpd (VM-global problem?) Message-ID: <20001229201425.A3741@gruyere.muc.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20001229165340.C12791@athlon.random> <20001229200657.B16261@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001229200657.B16261@athlon.random>; from andrea@suse.de on Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 08:06:57PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 08:06:57PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 06:50:18PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Your cgi will keep the other CPU occupied, or run two of them. thttpd has > > superb scaling properties compared to say apache. > > I think with 8 CPUs and 8 NICs (usual benchmark setup) you want more than 1 cpu That's a good benchmark setup when the benchmark requires a single machine. In the real world it often makes a lot of sense though to use a cluster of cheap single CPU machines behind a load balancer (gives you better fault tolerance and is likely cheaper) For these thttpd is a nice web server. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/