Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:18:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:18:28 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:12735 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:18:27 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:24:53 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Till Immanuel Patzschke , lse-tech , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 15000+ processes -- poor performance ?! Message-ID: <20021219012453.GJ31800@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> <20021219011541.GI31800@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021219011541.GI31800@holomorphy.com> 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: 877 Lines: 20 On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:53:45PM -0800, Till Immanuel Patzschke wrote: >> forgot the kernel version (2.4.20aa1)... On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 05:15:41PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > 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. Er, sorry, on a brief rereading my eyes deceived me and I thought an extra zero got in there. 15K is fine on 2.5 + patches. 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/