Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:09:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:09:26 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:6335 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:09:22 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:15:41 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Till Immanuel Patzschke Cc: lse-tech , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: 15000+ processes -- poor performance ?! Message-ID: <20021219011541.GI31800@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Till Immanuel Patzschke , lse-tech , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" References: <3E0116D6.35CA202A@inw.de> <3E011899.A3FBDAF1@inw.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E011899.A3FBDAF1@inw.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 670 Lines: 16 On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:53:45PM -0800, Till Immanuel Patzschke wrote: > forgot the kernel version (2.4.20aa1)... 2.4.20aa1 is missing some of the infrastructure to reduce the cpu consumption under high process count loads, but that's not going to help you anyway. 150K processes is not going to be feasible in the immediate future (months or longer away) so you'll have to figure out how to take that into account. Bill - 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/