Interesting analysis of linux kernel threading by IBM

[Alan Cox]

> > Or an ftp server.  (Where is the Linux equivalent of FreeBSD's
> > ftp.cdrom.com?)
> 
> Hundreds of people downloading at the same time is not the same as hundreds
> of running tasks...

A scalable anonymous ftpd needs a few threads in Linux, and for sendfile a lot
but thats flaws in the aio facilities in Linux - and in general in Unix. Its
not an area unix of old really handled well.

Thats the cause, thats what you fix

Alan


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