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From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
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On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, David Malone wrote:

DM> On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 01:21:14PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
DM> > Any idea what type of impact this patch would have on say, a large qmail 
DM> > server that's drowning in context-switches?
DM> 
DM> It will depend on how many processes you have running at any one
DM> moment and how often processes are created/destroyed. From the look
DM> of the graphs, you won't really be able to tell unless there are
DM> significantly more than 1000 processes running at any moment.

Then perhaps someone like scrappy@ should test it on one of his hosting planets 
;-)

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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