Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene

["ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Philippe Anel <xigh@bouyapop.org> wrote:
> Can you tell us why some things are impossible to scale with 5000 posix
> threads (and easy to scale with 5000 plan 9 style threads) ?

the trivial stuff you deal with first, like the default 8MB thread
stack which makes the machine fall over.

But it still seems to very hard on a linux box to spawn 5k threads and
run them, one thread to a socket. The whole machine just starts to bog
down.

I did not write this particular code, was only a victim of it.

ron