Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 04:29:32 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: dyson@iquest.net, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, wes@softweyr.com, toasty@home.dragondata.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High Load cron patches - comments? Message-ID: <199901300929.EAA59052@y.dyson.net> In-Reply-To: <199901290215.TAA10882@usr07.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jan 29, 99 02:14:59 am"
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Terry Lambert said: > > Throttling fork rate is also a valuable tool, and maybe a hard limit > > is good also. It is all about how creative you are (or want to be) > > in your solution :-). > > I wonder about an explicit yield being a result of your standard > fork(2) call invocation... the more processes in read-to-run, the > longer you get to wait before your next fork... > If one did that, it would be wise idea to only do the yield when it would be profitable. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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