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Re: threads and concurrency



Hi,

This system has 32 GB of RAM additionally OS is RHEL 5. And this
system is 16 core. I see new threads are created as the load increases
and I have re-checked my system and thread count is now 28. So I think
at most 32 threads is fine for me


Regards.


On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com> wrote:
> --On Saturday, February 19, 2011 6:32 PM -0800 Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Omer Faruk SEN wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi ,
>>>
>>> I have and ldap server (openldap-2.4.23 ) in slapd.conf I set
>>>
>>> concurrency  8192
>>> threads 256
>
>> Keep in mind that each thread uses a thread stack of 4MB on 32 bit
>> systems, 8MB on 64 bit systems. So you're looking at 1-2GB of RAM
>> dedicated to the threads with a setting like this. Make sure you don't
>> configure more threads than you have RAM for...
>
> I would add that your threads setting is likely a rather insane value unless
> you have 256*4 cores (1024 core box).  You generally don't need to set the
> threads value higher than 8 or 16.
>
> --Quanah
>
>
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