10 Oct
2002
10 Oct
'02
5:07 p.m.
On Thursday 10 Oct 2002 5:06 pm, Brian R Brinegar wrote:
And my first intuition is to increase the number of threads.
If your system is already cpu bound then your intuition may be wrong. more threads means more context switching overhead reducing overall throughput, each request takes longer because they get a smaller share of the cpu, and a larger memory overhead (memory usage is proportional to the number of threads)