From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Lee Chin" Subject: debate on 700 threads vs asynchronous code Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:19:13 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030123231913.26663.qmail@mail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Hi I am discussing with a few people on different approaches to solving a scale problem I am having, and have gotten vastly different views In a nutshell, as far as this debate is concerned, I can say I am writing a web server. Now, to cater to 700 clients, I can a) launch 700 threads that each block on I/O to disk and to the client (in reading and writing on the socket) OR b) Write an asycnhrounous system with only 2 or three threads where I manage the connections and stack (via setcontext swapcontext etc), which is progromatically a little harder Which way will yeild me better performance, considerng both approaches are implemented optimally? Thanks Lee -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Meet Singles http://corp.mail.com/lavalife - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs