Messages in this thread | | | Date | 17 Mar 2002 16:52:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 10.31 second kernel compile |
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yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote on 16.03.02 in <20020316161057.A23495@hq.fsmlabs.com>:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:00:07PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > databases, routing tables, and images. Our good friends at Intel > > > claim "carrier grade" Linux needs to run threaded apps > > > with 10,000 threads to depose Solaris in telecom - all sharing the > > > same monster address space.=20 > > > > Thats intel though. The same people who seem to think that hyperthreading > > in the CPU is required for carrier grade work 8) > > I love the whole sound of "carrier grade" though: Do you use "carrier grade" > Linux or just the "recreational boating" version?
Wrong carrier, though. It's not US Navy carriers (those people use NT, after all, and this was "depose Solaris"), it's carriers like AT&T - phone companies. And I suspect many of those 10,000 threads are handling one phone conversation each. Or maybe one half of one.
In fact, that's a problem space I find much more interesting than the military. *These* people need to be robust in peacetime. They can't afford a big showy piece of hardware that breaks down when it's finally needed, because "finally" is a very short-term goal.
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