Date: 26 Jun 2003 21:26:59 -0000 From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to> To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ten thousand small processes Message-ID: <20030626212659.51367.qmail@cr.yp.to> References: <20030626025029.71392.qmail@cr.yp.to> <200306260515.h5Q5FhPF020045@bitblocks.com>
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Bakul Shah writes: > Instead of complaining about wasting 78 megabytes and arguing > about why various proposed solutions fall short and why your > way is the best, why don't you come up with a patch that > saves space for small programs? Funny. Seems to me that I keep making concrete suggestions---including a detailed proposal for giving more space to malloc()---and the answer is consistently ``We really don't care about per-process overhead.'' What's the benefit of a patch for people who don't even see the problem? ---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
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