[Spread-users] Spread scalability?

[Theo Schlossnagle]

John Huong wrote:

>How scalable is Spread? How many connections can it handle on a box with
>let's say a
>
>1 Ghz P3/Duron/P4/Athlon
>256 MB RAM
>IDE hard drive
>Linux 2.4.18
>
>Just want to have some idea on how scalable Spread is .. ;).
>  
>
Out of the box it should handle about 1000.  If you rewrite the 
scheduler (or convince Jonathan to) to use Linux sigio and make some 
other small modifications to embrace any idiosyncracies of your specific 
use you can probably go much much higher than that.

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