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Running 100,000 Parallel Threads

Posted by michael on from the when-one-isn't-enough dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This story explains how the latest Linux development kernel is now able to start and stop over 100,000 threads in parallel in only 2 seconds (about 14 minutes 58 seconds faster than with earlier Linux kernels)! Much of this impressive work is thanks to Ingo Molnar, author of the O(1) scheduler recently merged with the 2.5 Linux development kernel."

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  1. Re:1000,000 threads?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    frits lysdexic boewflu pr0st!

  2. boxen. . . by Catskul · · Score: 2, Troll

    Could you please refrain from using "boxen". It makes my head hurt

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    Im not here now... Im out KILLING pepperoni
  3. Re:Windows by CoolVibe · · Score: 2, Troll
    Oh, I'll bet Microsoft could rig an system without the graphics, network, most driver subsystems and the GUI stuff to skimp on overhead and winge their way to a higher number of parallel threads in less time.

    Or they could just blatantly pay some other company that does "independant testing" *cough*mindcraft*cough to lie about it :)