[MUD-Dev] Re: Question regarding Java threads

[Jon A. Lambert]

On  5 Aug 98, Ben Greear wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Jon A. Lambert wrote:
> 
> > A bit back we we discussing the upper limits of Java threads on 
> > various platforms.   Much of the concern, especially in regard to 
> > Java, was the one thread per connection issue.  Can anyone comment on 
> > the following hardware(?) issue raised here? 
> > 
> > --cut from rgma --
> > 
> > By the way, your P2-233 will choke with 200 active users.  Interrupt
> > overflow from the NIC.  You could solve this problem with a $500 NIC
> > that doesn't interrupt the CPU as much(has its own processor,) but
> > then you'll have to ban char mode telnet outright and do some other
> > unfriendly things too, and I just don't know that you're going to find
> > 200 simultaneous players anyway; few muds do, so unless you become one
> > of them, it isn't worth the time, money, and effort to prepare for:)
> 
> I'm not convinced he is right.  Perhaps if you are using a sorry driver
> and or sorry NIC...
> 
> For grins, I'm gonna work on some scripts to max my mud out...
> 
> I'll let you know how it goes....
> 

Nod.  It's my gut feeling that a small capacity card would find 
itself in a wait state before flooding the CPU with interrupts.  Then 
again, I have very little experience in the network card area.  

I've got a fairly old card on this machine, DEC Etherworks LC/TP 
(DE-101?) and it's in a 400mhz MMX P2.  Dunno if this card will
cause problems.  It doesn't with 5 users <grin>

 

 
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