Timeline for Does it make sense to have a user specified thread limit?
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| May 9, 2016 at 14:24 | answer | added | Peter Green | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 11, 2016 at 10:30 | vote | accept | Daniel | ||
| Jan 24, 2016 at 21:43 | comment | added | Stephan Bijzitter | Depends on the user. I have worked in a branch where users were often just as nerdy as I am, and they would really like to be able to control the resources an application uses versus the performance. | |
| Jan 24, 2016 at 19:20 | comment | added | Sebastian Redl | "Fairly sharing" causes our performance to plummet due to inefficient cache use. However, the solution is to lock the program to a subset of the CPU cores, not limit its threads directly. | |
| Jan 24, 2016 at 18:45 | answer | added | amon | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 24, 2016 at 18:30 | comment | added | Daniel | @SebastianRedl But should this not be the responsibility of the OS to fairly share CPU time amongst the running processes? | |
| Jan 24, 2016 at 18:25 | comment | added | Sebastian Redl | Some of our customers use big shared machines where users just log in remotely. These customers frequently complain that our products hogs all the resources of the computer and want it to be nicer to multiple people using it in parallel. | |
| Jan 24, 2016 at 17:48 | history | asked | Daniel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |