From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>, Eric <eric@cisu.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Stephan T. Lavavej" <stl@nuwen.net>
Subject: Re: Process Creation Speed
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:28:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040419132836.GA14341@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040419120957.GB3764@convergence.de>
Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> > > > None of this answers the question which is relevant to linux-kernel:
> > > > why does process creation take 7.5ms and fail to scale with CPU
> > > > internal clock speed over a factor of 4 (600MHz x86 to 2.2GHz x86).
>
> http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/ has some benchmarks on the issue.
> But I guess the numbers depend heavily on the server/CGI software used.
Nice page. The graphs there show fork() taking 250-350 microseconds,
which is quite fast. Where is the 7.5ms complaint coming from?
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-19 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-17 2:16 Process Creation Speed Stephan T. Lavavej
2004-04-18 5:44 ` Eric
2004-04-19 0:30 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-19 2:15 ` Eric
2004-04-19 3:04 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-19 5:43 ` Eric
2004-04-19 9:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-19 12:09 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2004-04-19 12:44 ` Stephan T. Lavavej
2004-04-19 22:48 ` David Lang
2004-04-22 13:40 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2004-04-19 13:28 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
[not found] <1MFUQ-1zo-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <1MGnU-1U9-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-04-19 15:43 ` Andi Kleen
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