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Subject: Re: fix CONFIG_HIGHPTE
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 15:51, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Linux isn't yet up to having 500 simultaneous interactive
> users, in fact I don't think it has ever been up to this
> situation.

It works suprisingly well. I know people who are doing it. It does not
work when those users are all running arbitarly large jobs. In most
conventional (non student compile) type setups 500 is fine. The O(1)
scheduler and highio are pretty essential as is a real I/O subsystem.

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