On Wednesday 08 May 2002 14:46, Hunt, Bryan wrote:
> I think the NGPT is in kernel 2.5.something we need to be running a stable
> kernel so this is not an option. Thousands of threads are an absolute must
yeah. 2.5 is not usable yet...
> for this application as it must support thousands of simultaneous
> connections and each connection will use blocking io (not our choice).
> Actually I think the advice about reducing the number of threads is a bit
> of a
> cop out (not on your part nut in general) you should be free to use the
> system resources to the max if need be without the restraints of hard coded
> limits.
At that number of threads, I'd imagine that scheduling overhead would actually
become a significant waste of resources, especially with java. Are you using
Ingo Molnar's O(1) scheduler? It's probably a good idea for this sort of
setup.
> I temporarily changed the ulimit settings to be as so ....
> max user processes (-u) unlimited
> Ran the test again and got identical results.
Ah crap...
> I should have mentioned that
> The machine has 320 mb of ram and the test program was run as
>> java -Xms32m -Xmx64m TestThreads 1200
What do those -X flags do? Are you sure you're not using all the memory?
How much swap do you have? Is it being used?
Take a look at this web page (you may need to patch the kernel):
http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=237189
Nick
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