On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Min Xu wrote: > Well, I am not defending this server/client-on-one-system is better > or anything. Just want to understand this better. Isn't the clients > block when the servers can not response? From a higher level of point > of view, the system is a closed queuing system. In the steady state > there should be a balance between servers and clients, right?
You still end up with situations where the client steals the timeslice away from the server when it doesn't really have any significant work to do, and then the server has to switch back in and do a little more work.... etc.
