[mythtv-users] 2 short questions.
thor
mythtv at lamedomainname.com
Wed Oct 20 20:33:16 UTC 2004
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 11:41 am, sschaefer1 at woh.rr.com wrote:
> I was just hoping to reduce the number of mythbackend
> processes/childs/threads. I don't watch that much TV and I can't see why
> there would need to be that many waiting threads/processes.
The backend keeps a pool of instatiated threads around to serve requests as
they come in. This avoids the cost of starting a new thread on every request,
which is a good thing.
1) Threads in the same process share the same memory.
2) A non executing thread uses (essentially) no CPU resources.
Given 1 and 2, I personally fail to understand why people seem so concerned
with how many threads are in use.
- thor
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