From: Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: thousands of CPU cores
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:26:44 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrng7dv94.rqb.sylvain@gallu.homelinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1215732802.48769c4277e80@webmail.in-berlin.de>
On 10-07-2008, Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> Using multi-processes instead of multi-threads is the
> usual way on Unix, and it has a lot of advantages.
> Threads-apologetes often say, threads are the ultimative
> technology... but processes have the advantage of encapsulation
> of the wohole environment of the program.
>
There is also the fact that using multi process allow you to go further
than the memory limit per process (3GB for Linux/ 1GB for Windows). With
the actual increase of amount of RAM, this can be an issue. For some
time, most of the vendor are selling computer with at least 1GB and
often 2GB or more.
Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-11 6:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-10 5:57 J C
2008-07-10 6:15 ` [Caml-list] " Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-07-10 12:47 ` Oliver Bandel
2008-07-10 13:48 ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2008-07-10 11:35 ` Jon Harrop
2008-07-14 11:32 ` J C
2008-07-14 12:08 ` Jon Harrop
2008-07-14 17:04 ` Mike Lin
2008-07-14 17:28 ` Jon Harrop
2008-07-14 17:16 ` Richard Jones
2008-07-10 13:21 ` Jon Harrop
2008-07-10 13:44 ` Peng Zang
2008-07-10 14:00 ` Jon Harrop
2008-07-10 22:25 ` Richard Jones
2008-07-10 23:04 ` Jon Harrop
2008-07-10 23:41 ` Oliver Bandel
2008-07-11 0:17 ` Oliver Bandel
2008-07-11 9:30 ` Richard Jones
2008-09-21 19:05 ` Michaël Grünewald
2008-09-21 21:41 ` Jon Harrop
2008-09-22 7:51 ` Alan Schmitt
2008-09-22 19:03 ` Jon Harrop
2008-09-22 19:49 ` David Teller
2008-09-23 6:42 ` kirillkh
2008-09-24 13:30 ` [Caml-list] Link tracking Chris Clearwater
2008-09-24 15:43 ` Jon Harrop
2008-07-11 14:53 ` [Caml-list] thousands of CPU cores Peng Zang
2008-07-15 14:39 ` Kuba Ober
2008-07-19 12:41 ` Oliver Bandel
2008-07-10 19:15 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2008-07-10 20:07 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-07-10 20:24 ` [Caml-list] " Gerd Stolpmann
2008-07-10 21:02 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-07-10 21:19 ` [Caml-list] " Gerd Stolpmann
2008-07-10 21:35 ` Jon Harrop
2008-07-10 22:39 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2008-07-15 15:57 ` Kuba Ober
2008-07-15 18:03 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2008-07-15 19:23 ` Adrien
2008-07-15 19:45 ` Adrien
2008-07-16 8:59 ` Michaël Grünewald
2008-07-16 16:43 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2008-07-16 11:46 ` Richard Jones
2008-07-16 18:35 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-07-17 12:48 ` Kuba Ober
2008-07-15 15:21 ` Kuba Ober
2008-07-10 20:48 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2008-07-10 21:12 ` Jon Harrop
2008-07-10 23:33 ` [Caml-list] " Oliver Bandel
2008-07-10 23:43 ` Oliver Bandel
2008-07-11 6:26 ` Sylvain Le Gall [this message]
2008-07-11 8:50 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2008-07-11 9:29 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-07-15 16:01 ` [Caml-list] " Kuba Ober
2008-07-13 3:17 ` Code Mobility [was Re: thousands of CPU cores] Robert Fischer
2008-07-11 3:01 ` [Caml-list] thousands of CPU cores Brian Hurt
2008-07-11 13:01 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2008-07-11 13:43 ` Jon Harrop
2008-07-11 14:03 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2008-07-11 15:08 ` Jon Harrop
2008-07-11 17:28 ` Jon Harrop
2008-07-11 17:54 ` Richard Jones
2008-07-11 18:30 ` Raoul Duke
2008-07-12 17:35 ` Brian Hurt
2008-07-11 15:01 ` Peng Zang
2008-07-12 0:23 ` Oliver Bandel
2008-07-12 22:54 ` J C
2008-07-19 12:06 ` Oliver Bandel
2008-07-11 14:06 ` Xavier Leroy
2008-07-11 15:20 ` Oliver Bandel
2008-07-11 15:23 ` Bill
2008-07-11 18:14 ` Mattias Engdegård
2008-07-12 23:05 ` J C
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