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From: "Lee Chin" <leechin@mail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: debate on 700 threads vs asynchronous code
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:19:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030123231913.26663.qmail@mail.com> (raw)

Hi
I am discussing with a few people on different approaches to solving a scale problem I am having, and have gotten vastly different views

In a nutshell, as far as this debate is concerned, I can say I am writing a web server.

Now, to cater to 700 clients, I can
a) launch 700 threads that each block on I/O to disk and to the client (in reading and writing on the socket)

OR

b) Write an asycnhrounous system with only 2 or three threads where I manage the connections and stack (via setcontext swapcontext etc), which is progromatically a little harder

Which way will yeild me better performance, considerng both approaches are implemented optimally?

Thanks
Lee
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             reply	other threads:[~2003-01-23 23:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-23 23:19 Lee Chin [this message]
2003-01-23 23:28 ` debate on 700 threads vs asynchronous code Larry McVoy
2003-01-23 23:31 ` Ben Greear
2003-01-27  9:48 ` Terje Eggestad
2003-01-27 21:48   ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-27 22:08 ` Bill Davidsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-24  0:07 Lee Chin
2003-01-24  1:46 Dan Kegel
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301232028480.980-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2003-01-24  2:04 ` Dan Kegel
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301232144470.8203-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2003-01-24  8:21 ` Dan Kegel
2003-01-24  8:26   ` Mark Mielke
2003-01-24 22:53     ` Corey Minyard
2003-01-24 23:21       ` Matti Aarnio
2003-01-24 23:29         ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-01-25  0:11           ` Dan Kegel
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301241840450.11758-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2003-01-25  0:24 ` Dan Kegel
2003-01-29 17:26 Lee Chin
2003-01-30  9:36 ` Terje Eggestad
2003-01-29 21:32 Dan Kegel

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