Re: what's the purpose?

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Friday, February 21, 2003 12:09 PM +0900 ZhangPu 
<zhang@fjh.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> Dear all
>
> about servers/slapd/slap.h
>
> ****************************************************************
> 1.400 Mon Feb 17 16:36:01 2003 UTC; 3 days, 10 hours ago by kurt
> CVS Tags: OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_1_MP, HEAD
> Changed since 1.399: +2 -2 lines
> Diffs to 1.399 (colored diff)
> Lower SLAP_MAX_WORKER_THREAD to 16 (from 32)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ****************************************************************
>
> Why change SLAP_MAX_WORKER_THREADS from 32 to 16 in slap.h?
> # define SLAP_MAX_WORKER_THREADS                (32)
> # define SLAP_MAX_WORKER_THREADS                (16)
>
> Did anyone know the purpose?

Well, I just guessing, I would say it has to do with the fact that 
platforms seem to have a problem with large numbers of threads.  At 
Stanford, we reduced our threads to 20 to get a stable system, and other 
people have found that they have to go to even lower numbers than 20 to get 
a stable system.

--Quanah


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Stanford University
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