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From: Rahul Dhesi (dhesi_at_rahul.net)
Date: Mon Jan 13 2003 - 21:19:14 CST

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    On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:16:08PM -0800, Rahul Dhesi wrote:

    > > With just one CPU context switches are driven by handoffs between various
    > > processes that handle a message, so the context switching rate should also
    > > depend only on the message rate. Multiple instance increase the memory
    > > footprint, perhaps your problem was lack of physical memory or CPU cache?
    >
    > One 933 MHz Intel CPU on a rack-mount Dell 1550 server.

    And one gigabyte of physical memory. And at all times I see 100-200 M
    used for the buffer cache (according to the output from 'top'), and only
    a small amount of swap space (100-200 M) in use, so I'm assuming that
    shortage of physical memory is not the problem.

    Rahul