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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. 1000,000 threads?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Wow. Imaging a beowfult cluster of these. This artical is impotrent. Very instresting.

    tommy

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

      frits lysdexic boewflu pr0st!

  2. I'm back! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    After a 2 year hiatus from slashdot, I am NOT pleased to learn that Linux is still around. How much longer will you dorks continue to play second fiddle to Microsoft?

    1. Re:I'm back! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
      I think that's more like 4th or possibly 5th fiddle...

      Solaris for life muthafuckas!

      and oh yeah, FORKLIFT KILL!

  3. Commander Taco tried to suck my cock! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    he did he did he did

  4. Alternative headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Gigantic performance problem in Linux code fixed after several years of "many eyes" scanning over it. Open source fanatics paradoxically claim this redeems open source.

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

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

    --

    Im not here now... Im out KILLING pepperoni
  6. 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 :)

  7. Re:100,000 Linux threads by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Or this one, from doubleclick, which seems to suggest that stability rather than performance is Linux's selling point.

  8. This Ingo Molnar ?= the author I. Molnar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is this the same Ingo Molnar who wrote this classic tome about concurrency?