Re: 2.2.5 optimizations for web benchmarks?

Greg Lindahl (lindahl@cs.virginia.edu)
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:08:36 -0400 (EDT)

> > So are you saying that a "thread" context switch is less painful than
> > a "process"?
>
> If you are sharing the virtual memory space it means you don't take
> a TLB flush

If I recall correctly, the Sybase folks described this as a major win
across many OSes. On the other hand, Apache in particular may not
access enough memory to make a huge difference. In Sybase, the buffer
cache is in shared memory in each process...

-- g

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