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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] grist for the "synchronous vs. asynchronous" mill
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:29:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10903240729s41bfc3d8i5bf7d5a436da14f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c6a0e85f98409f282e9ffc58736d8fbf@quanstro.net>

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:34 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> On Tue Mar 24 08:54:12 EDT 2009, rogpeppe@gmail.com wrote:
>> http://www.classhat.com/tymaPaulMultithread.pdf
>
> seems more like grist for the task vs. process
> debate.  not that the outcome is in doubt.

except that they only went to 1000 threads. Once we hit more than
that, linux fell over badly for us on even a big machine.

I guess the java threads are much better than posix threads? I don't
know. I just know that we've had to go back to AIO instead of a posix
threads-based tool.

ron



  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-24 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-24 12:51 roger peppe
2009-03-24 13:34 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-24 14:29   ` ron minnich [this message]
2009-03-24 14:41     ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-28  3:48 ` Roman Shaposhnik

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