Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:52:31 -0400 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org> To: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi> Cc: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to> Subject: Re: ten thousand small processes Message-ID: <B4546868-A75F-11D7-B6EF-000393754B1C@vangelderen.org> In-Reply-To: <009901c33b17$1a5090c0$10d4473e@PETEX31>
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On Wednesday, Jun 25, 2003, at 08:39 US/Eastern, Petri Helenius wrote: >> or that use threads, or that allocate many file descriptors per=20 >> process. >> >> I'm talking about _small_ processes. I'm talking about programs that >> might have quite a bit of code, and might read and write quite a lot=20= >> of >> data, but that don't use much memory per process. The problem is that >> I'm talking about ten thousand of these processes running at once. >> > > Why you want processes and not use threads? Running 10000 processes > "at once" requires 10000 execution units, I don=B4t think FreeBSD will=20= > run on > anything with more than 16 CPUs at this time. Fault isolation? -J --=20 Jeroen C. van Gelderen - jeroen@vangelderen.org A single glass of beer was passed, from which I was the last one to sip - a ritual signifying that I was not to be poisoned.
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