Messages in this thread | | | From | "Davide Libenzi" <> | Subject | Re: Interesting analysis of linux kernel threading by IBM | Date | Thu, 20 Jan 2000 14:41:22 +0100 |
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Thursday, January 20, 2000 3:14 PM Peter Rival <frival@zk3.dec.com> wrote : > No offense, but it is this type of thinking that will keep Linux out of the > datacenter. What you must say it is not a typical (or realistic) workload _for > me_. Hundreds of tasks is trivial here - we have systems running with well over > 100 users actively working that are two or more generations old (that's a much > bigger thing for Alpha than for Intel). On our newer systems we fully expect > hundreds, if not thousands, of tasks. The more commercially accepted Linux > becomes, the more common large configurations are going to be, and we should be > thinking about that now - not when we're being shot all over creation for not > doing what everyone said we could (ala WinNT). >
I can only agree here given that there are practically no costs to sustain under normal situations. And improvements are concrete under high load.
Cheers, Davide.
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