On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 09:52:07 +0100
Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@???> wrote:
> Fifty processes, you say...
>
> ftp.cdrom.com was a single freebsd server, and it served around 10k
> simultaneous users in the nineties. There were 10k processes, each of
> which was actively performing disk and network I/O.
>
> There is a limit to how many processes one can run on a single server
> without overstraining the scheduler, but fifty isn't it.
>
> Arnt
Context? Who said anything about fifty?
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