Re: Slowdown on high-load machines with 3000 sockets

[Rik van Riel]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Christian Schmid wrote:

> No i am only using 4 tasks with Poll-API and non-blocking sockets. Every
> socket gets a 1 MB read-ahead. This are 4000 MB Max on a 8 GB machine....
> Shouldnt thrash.

If nothing else on the system uses any memory, and there
were no memory zones and no division into active and
inactive memory.

You may want to try a smaller readahead window and see if
your system still has trouble with the load.

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