RE: 15000+ processes -- poor performance ?!

Alan Cox
2002-12-19T01:44:08Z

On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 01:04, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote:
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> >
> > forgot the kernel version (2.4.20aa1)...
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> You need the O(1) scheduler; not sure if aa has it or not; if not, lots of
> processes will suck your machine. I think -ac has the O(1) scheduler, or try
> 2.5. The old scheduler is pretty cool but not as scalable as the new one.
>
> If it has it ... well, I have no idea - maybe Robert Love would know.

He's running the -aa kernel, which has all the right bits for this too.
In fact in some ways for very large memory boxes its probably the better
variant