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From: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
To: Arnaud Installe <a.installe@ieee.org>
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:00:10 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: high load & poor interactivity on fast thread creation
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try the 2.4 test kernels. I had a situation of poor performance with lots
of processes and saw a dramatic improvement with the 2.4 kernel.

David Lang

On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Arnaud Installe wrote:

> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:14:43 +0100
> From: Arnaud Installe <arnaud@bach.kotnet.org>
> Reply-To: Arnaud Installe <a.installe@ieee.org>
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: ainstalle@filepool.com
> Subject: high load & poor interactivity on fast thread creation
> 
> Hello,
> 
> When creating a lot of Java threads per second linux slows down to a
> crawl.  I don't think this happens on NT, probably because NT doesn't
> create new threads as fast as Linux does.
> 
> Is there a way (setting ?) to solve this problem ?  Rate-limit the number
> of threads created ?  The problem occurred on linux 2.2, IBM Java 1.1.8.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 							Arnaud
> 
> -- 
> Arnaud Installe                                             a.installe@ieee.org
> 
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