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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:44:06 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: fix CONFIG_HIGHPTE
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On 8 Aug 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.

Agreed, it'll work when things are well behaved and the
system isn't overloaded.

However, having been a curious student myself I'm pretty
sure student workloads aren't always well behaved and do
have a tendency to overload the system once in a while.

I'm not sure Linux will be able to deal with the "I wonder
what happens if I ..." type students ;)

regards,

Rik
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