Re: help with huge memory consumption??

On 12 Mar 2007 01:56:48 -0700 David Schwartz <davids@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| When people are talking about multi-threaded versus multi-process
| approaches, it is completely nonsensical to compare the cost of
| creating a thread to the cost of creating a process. There is
| virtually no realistic case where you can either do one of one or one
| of the other. Dozens of performance issues would come first, yet for
| some reason, everyone brings this stinker up as if it had any real
| relevance.

The start/create cost is relevant. It's just not the only thing that is
relevant. I think what you are trying to say here is that the whole cost
of threads vs. processes has to be considered, not just the creation cost.

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