> > Or an ftp server. (Where is the Linux equivalent of FreeBSD's
> > ftp.cdrom.com?)
>
> Hundreds of people downloading at the same time is not the same as hundreds
> of running tasks...
A scalable anonymous ftpd needs a few threads in Linux, and for sendfile a lot
but thats flaws in the aio facilities in Linux - and in general in Unix. Its
not an area unix of old really handled well.
Thats the cause, thats what you fix
Alan
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