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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 15:26:04 -0600
From: Victor Yodaiken <yodaiken@fsmlabs.com>
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why use threads ( was: Alan Cox quote?)
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On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 02:01:16PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote:
> 	It's very hard to use processes for this purpose. Consider, for example, a
> web server. You don't want to use one process for each client because that
> would limit your scalability (16,000 clients would become difficult, and
> with threads it's trivial). You don't want to use one thread for each client

How is it trivial? How do you debug a 16,000 thread application?