Re:The future of M:N threading
by masklinn on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @01:15PM
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> The problem that created the whole non-blocking, async domain was the memory needed for the thread's call stacks. You don't have enough address space to place a bunch of 2MB call stacks for each thread, if you're handling tens of thousands of connections.
c10k is (almost) 15 years old, updating it for today are the OS and MMU going to manage 10 million threads and stacks for that many connections?
c10k is (almost) 15 years old, updating it for today are the OS and MMU going to manage 10 million threads and stacks for that many connections?