On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 14:45 -0500, Steve West wrote: > >> > Steve West wrote: > >> >> I am running Fedora 9 x86 64 bit. What is the kernel timetick per > >> >> thread? How many threads per second does the kernel run? > >> > Probably not quite what you are asking but here goes: > >> > http://kerneltrap.org/node/464 > >> > > >> > run for a few seconds: > >> > $ vmstat 1 > >> > > >> > look at system|in = interrupts per second. > >> > this is approximately the interupts per second or timer Hz value. > >> > > >> > from the kernel config parameter HZ_1000 etc: > >> > getconf CLK_TCK > >> > > >> > DaveT. > >> Is there ay way to set the ticks without rebuilding the kernel? > > > > Perhaps if you explained what you are trying to achieve people might be > > able to help you get there. > > > > poc > I have an application/service that has 1000 or so threads. Most of these are > TCPIP socket accept and connect. I want to be able to run all the threads in > a second or so to achieve a reasonable throughput. I would like the kernel > to run 1000 threads per second. Right now I think it is set for 100 ticks > per second in f9 x86 64bit. > > Steve > Having you considered using a far smaller number of threads and select/poll to wait on the sockets instead of allocating thread-per-client. In my experience, unless your server code is I/O bound (in which case, you can always use asyncio and/or I/O worker threads), a single thread can max out the bandwidth of 1Gbps line and handle 100's of clients. - Gilboa -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines