Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:39:52 +0200 From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi> To: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>, <freebsd-performance@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ten thousand small processes Message-ID: <009901c33b17$1a5090c0$10d4473e@PETEX31> References: <20030625060629.51087.qmail@cr.yp.to><20030625023621.N17881-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> <20030625094301.56349.qmail@cr.yp.to>
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> or that use threads, or that allocate many file descriptors per process. > > I'm talking about _small_ processes. I'm talking about programs that > might have quite a bit of code, and might read and write quite a lot of > data, but that don't use much memory per process. The problem is that > I'm talking about ten thousand of these processes running at once. > Why you want processes and not use threads? Running 10000 processes "at once" requires 10000 execution units, I donīt think FreeBSD will run on anything with more than 16 CPUs at this time. Pete
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