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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 08:52:17 +0200 (CEST)
From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
To: Fabio Riccardi <fabio@chromium.com>
Subject: RE: linux scheduler limitations?
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On 29-Mar-01 Fabio Riccardi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm working on an enhanced version of Apache and I'm hitting my head
> against something I don't understand.
> 
> I've found a (to me) unexplicable system behaviour when the number of
> Apache forked instances goes somewhere beyond 1050, the machine
> suddently slows down almost top a halt and becomes totally unresponsive,
> until I stop the test (SpecWeb).

Are you using 2.2.x ?  I had the same problem here until I switched
to 2.4.x. 2.2 internal locks are not fine grained enough.


Bye.
    Giuliano Pochini ->)|(<- Shiny Network {AS6665} ->)|(<-

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