I don't have really good numbers for either, but I can say that I was
really impressed with this firewall yesterday. there were other problems
in the system that caused things to clog up, but a 2.4 AMD950 PC133 ram
system was useable (slow, but useable) with 4000+ processes and a loadave
of > 300

David Lang

 On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Arnaud Installe wrote:

> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 10:47:45 +0100
> From: Arnaud Installe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: high load & poor interactivity on fast thread creation
> 
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 03:00:10PM -0800, David Lang wrote:
> > try the 2.4 test kernels. I had a situation of poor performance with lots
> > of processes and saw a dramatic improvement with the 2.4 kernel.
> 
> So what load average should I expect Linux versions 2.2 and 2.4 to perform
> well under ?  I'm wondering what would be the best way to solve this
> problem: limit the number of processes created during a certain time span;
> check if the load average isn't too high before creating a new thread (and
> go to sleep if it isn't); or something else ?
> 
> Thanks very much BTW !  The list has always been very helpful.  :-)
> 
>                                                               Arnaud
> 
> > > When creating a lot of Java threads per second linux slows down to a
> > > crawl.  I don't think this happens on NT, probably because NT doesn't
> > > create new threads as fast as Linux does.
> > > 
> > > Is there a way (setting ?) to solve this problem ?  Rate-limit the number
> > > of threads created ?  The problem occurred on linux 2.2, IBM Java 1.1.8.
> 
> -- 
> Arnaud Installe                                               
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Man has never reconciled himself to the ten commandments.
> -
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
> the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
> 
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Reply via email to