[OT] This feels wrong (pthreads question)

[Bryan Sant]

On 1/29/07, Levi Pearson <levi at cold.org> wrote:
> It sounds like you're trying to disagree with me, but this is exactly
> what I've been saying.  A reasonably-sized thread pool is not what I
> meant by massively multithreaded, and is precisely what I advocated
> once he expressed concern over CPU utilization on a multi-processor
> machine.

You're right.  woot.

> The link works for me.  Google for 'apache vs yaws' if it continues to

I'm proxied, maybe that's why.  I'll try it at home.

> comparison, but rather the naive "one thread per connection" model

Agreed, that is a bad way to go.

> Creation time is not the only issue.  System resource utilization by
> threads is also significant, since a new process structure and a new
> stack space must be allocated for each thread.  Scaling to the 100k+
> thread level may even require a kernel recompile to make more space,
> depending on how the kernel is configured by the distro.  Clearly a
> thread pool doesn't have this problem, though.

Agreed.

> Again, this is pretty much what I've been saying.  Hopefully it will
> be convincing coming from so many people.
>
>                 --Levi

Sheesh.  I should just learn lisp and then we'd be twins!

-Bryan