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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, riel@imladris.surriel.com
Subject: Re: fix CONFIG_HIGHPTE
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:22:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020808192201.GF15685@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1028836757.28883.73.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>

On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 15:51, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> Linux isn't yet up to having 500 simultaneous interactive
>> users, in fact I don't think it has ever been up to this
>> situation.

On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 08:59:17PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> It works suprisingly well. I know people who are doing it. It does not
> work when those users are all running arbitarly large jobs. In most
> conventional (non student compile) type setups 500 is fine. The O(1)
> scheduler and highio are pretty essential as is a real I/O subsystem.


Could you put me and/or Rik in contact with them so we can get a better
grip on their issues and  characteristics of their workload?


Thanks,
Bill

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-08-08 19:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-06 23:15 fix CONFIG_HIGHPTE William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-07  0:43 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-07  0:50   ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-07  1:31     ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-07  4:00       ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-07  4:12         ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-07  1:07   ` Anton Blanchard
2002-08-07  1:55     ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-07  2:57     ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-07 18:43       ` Ingo Oeser
2002-08-08 14:51         ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-08 19:59           ` Alan Cox
2002-08-08 18:44             ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-08 19:22             ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-08-08 14:51         ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-09 14:10         ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-09 14:07       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-07  4:05     ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-07  4:18       ` Anton Blanchard
2002-08-07  5:16   ` Martin J. Bligh

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