RE: 15000+ processes -- poor performance ?!

Robert Love
2002-12-19T01:05:16Z

On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 20:04, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote:
> >
> > forgot the kernel version (2.4.20aa1)...
>
> 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.

2.4-aa has the O(1) scheduler, yes.

I think 15,000 processes may always suck, though :)

Robert Love