Group replies work best with mailing lists. On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 14:30 +0200, Mateusz Berezecki wrote: > On 8/27/05, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well the obvious question is: what kernel version and which thread > > library? > > Ah, sorry I just forgot to put this info > > Linux blade1 2.6.12 #1 SMP Tue Jul 26 08:43:57 GMT 2005 i686 Intel(R) > Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux > > the cpu is with HT so Linux thinks there are 4 cpus on board > > > > > 2.4 with LinuxThreads might have severe problems. However 2.6 with NPTL > > should be able to handle it, IIRC Igno once did a million threads with _Ingo_ Molnar that is; I really should have gotten those 4 letters in the right order by now, humble appologies.
> > that combination just to show that it worked ;-). > > Yes, but how about switching contexts and the performance impact? > Will it slowdown the whole system or just result in low or medium > overhead?. > These threads are meant to be running an intensive network connection > and possibly analysing the dataflow and maybe filtering some stuff. > Each thread doing the same task. I think it should work; however I'm not the most qualified to answer this. -- Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
