RE: RE: What to know detail about why Squid use single process.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: maer727@sohu.com [mailto:maer727@sohu.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:30 PM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: squid-dev@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re:RE: What to know detail about why Squid use
> single process.
>
>
> Thanks, Rob pal!
>
> What means "multi-cpu scalability" or "scale to multiple CPU's"

The ability to execute concurrent threads on separate CPU's in parallel.

> in your reply? I think they mean the threads can not run on muiti-CPU
> system. But I am not sure about it. Am I correct?

No. The threads will run, but they will only use a single CPU at any
point in time. kernel mode threads allow multiple threads from a single
process to execute in parallel - one thread per CPU.

Rob
Received on Tue Apr 23 2002 - 20:37:27 MDT