Found serious problems with support for multiprocessing on Linux.

Linux Scalability problems were recently discovered by engineers SGI, which run Linux on the 4096-processor system. According to them, the configuration of the Linux kernel by default does not allow for such equipment due to a too large number of nuclear flows generated for each processor to improve performance, so SGI engineers needed to make a truly Herculean effort to address this problem - increase the limit on the maximum number of processes …

19 April 2007 | , , , configuration, effort, increase, issue, number, support

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