[Gllug] Red Hat 9.0

[Nix]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Tethys yowled:
> 
> Nix writes:
>>[1] for values of `they' equal to `mingo', and perhaps `drepper'
> 
> Actually just mingo (Uli was testing thread startup times, but never had
> more than 50 running concurrently), and it was 100,000 concurrent threads,

I'm sure I saw mention somewhere of a 10-megathread test --- or maybe it
was `we didn't do this because it would have required insane amounts of
memory'.

> not millions. But still impressive all the same, and *way* more than any
> real life application will ever need.

I dunno, I'm sure someone will find a use for that many.

--- of course, now, we'll see all-the-world's-a-Linux-box developers
turning out applications using thousands of threads and moaning because
they don't work elsewhere...

>                                       Apparently the box was still usable
> and responsive with a load average well into 4 figures...

Um, wow.

We seem to have gone from semi-crappy thread support to ultra-stellar
thread support, all at once...

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