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Scaling to Thousands of Threads
Architectures and Design Patterns · Cloud Comptuing · Data Structures and Algorithms · Distributed Computing · linux · Operating Systems · OS Kernel · Performance · Performance, Throughput, Real-time and Other · Software Engineering · Throughput

Scaling to Thousands of Threads

Paolo Maresca3 Comments

Knot is a network server as well as Haboob. The difference is the concurrency model: Knot is thread-based, instead Haboob is event-based [9]. Clearly, from the benchmark results, the poll()/epoll() mechanism is a serious bottleneck as soon as the number of active concurrent clients become relevant (in the specific case, at 16384 clients the trashing… Continue reading Scaling to Thousands of Threads

Dense Virtualization via Linux Containers
Cloud Comptuing · linux · News from the Web · Operating Systems · OS Kernel · Performance, Throughput, Real-time and Other · virtualization

Dense Virtualization via Linux Containers

Paolo Maresca1 Comment

We are living the era of buzzwords, and Docker is for sure one of those in the technological landscape. Docker has a common sense definition: hypervisor-free virtualization. In other terms: running VMs without any hypervisor-based virtualization support. Now, how is this possible? What is the arcane trick to achieving that? Let’s live a short journey… Continue reading Dense Virtualization via Linux Containers