RE: linux scheduler limitations?

Giuliano Pochini
2001-03-30T06:55:20Z

On 29-Mar-01 Fabio Riccardi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm working on an enhanced version of Apache and I'm hitting my head
> against something I don't understand.
>
> I've found a (to me) unexplicable system behaviour when the number of
> Apache forked instances goes somewhere beyond 1050, the machine
> suddently slows down almost top a halt and becomes totally unresponsive,
> until I stop the test (SpecWeb).

Are you using 2.2.x ? I had the same problem here until I switched
to 2.4.x. 2.2 internal locks are not fine grained enough.

Bye.