No, shards can be spread even across machines. It's when they changed default lighttpd from single thread (fast but bottlenecked) to external processes (relieve bottleneck but overhead) to worker threads for latent IO only.
On Jul 17, 2007, at 2:43 AM, "Raul Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/17/07, Oleg Kobchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One observation not realizable in J: worker threads significantly beat worker processes. The partitioning of their database into shards used threads and not processes? -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ____________________________________________________________________________________ Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
