ten thousand small processes

[Petri Helenius]

> or that use threads, or that allocate many file descriptors per process.
>
> I'm talking about _small_ processes. I'm talking about programs that
> might have quite a bit of code, and might read and write quite a lot of
> data, but that don't use much memory per process. The problem is that
> I'm talking about ten thousand of these processes running at once.
>

Why you want processes and not use threads? Running 10000 processes
"at once" requires 10000 execution units, I don´t think FreeBSD will run on
anything with more than 16 CPUs at this time.

Pete