From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 14 19:49:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C39DE1548F for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 19:49:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 19:48:09 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Tani Hosokawa" , "Terry Lambert" Cc: Subject: RE: Known MMAP() race conditions ... ? Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 19:48:09 -0700 Message-ID: <000201bece6c$79350420$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Applications requiring large numbers of threads. > > Balk. "Rodents of unusual size? I don't believe they exist...". > > BTW, what would you consider to be a large number of threads? 64? 128? > More? How about a threaded webserver? Apache *is* going to be threaded, > you know... I would hope that no matter how much Apache is threaded, it doesn't use a 'one thread per request' model. The cases where you honestly do require large numbers of threads (like 300 plus) are very rare. In every such case I've ever seen, it was theoretically possible to 'code your way out' of the need for that number of threads. The problem is that sometimes it's more effort than it's worth. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message