From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263286AbTJQCfK (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:35:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263292AbTJQCfK (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:35:10 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:45221 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263286AbTJQCfH (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:35:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:34:37 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Albert Cahalan Cc: linux-kernel mailing list Subject: Re: /proc reliability & performance Message-ID: <20031017023437.GB28158@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Albert Cahalan , linux-kernel mailing list References: <1066356438.15931.125.camel@cube> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1066356438.15931.125.camel@cube> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0.3, required 7, AWL) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 10:07:18PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > I created a process with 360 thousand threads, And your real need for 360,000 threads is? I tend to believe that there are hundreds, nay, thousands, nay, 360 thousand better things to work on in the kernel. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm