From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 28 18:15:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA29623 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:15:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA29605 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:15:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21194; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:15:25 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd021063; Thu Jan 28 19:15:18 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA10882; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:15:00 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199901290215.TAA10882@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: High Load cron patches - comments? To: dyson@iquest.net Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 02:14:59 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, wes@softweyr.com, toasty@home.dragondata.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199901281734.MAA21561@y.dyson.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Jan 28, 99 12:34:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message