[MUD-Dev] OT: Re: Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing.

[Shawn Halpenny <malachai#iname,com>]

On Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 11:27:35PM -0500, Vadim Tkachenko wrote:
> Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> [skipped]
> 
> > My conclusions:  It aint the NIC that will kill you.  I need to
> > optimize some server code.  Java on Linux is still real slow!
> 
> Sliding away: Try to run the same test on JDK 1.2b4 (important) on
> Solaris/x86 (I have one) or Solaris/SPARC (I don't, for the moment).
> 
> unset LC_CTYPE and LOCALE, otherwise it would drop core.
> set THREADS_FLAG=green
> 
> Using the same thread test as before, well, I just hold my breath. I
> guess, you'd be surprised, too.
> 
> Other surprise is its behavior with the native threads - have anyone out
> there seen Solaris load average of 130 (one hundred thirty)?

Not Solaris, but I've had an AIX box up to 128.  The most interesting
thing was that under ps, sendmail had changed its command line to something
like "load average [ > 1 billion ]...no longer accepting connections".

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Shawn Halpenny

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