Excerpt from the book "Multithreading Applications in Win32 1st ed.":
"Process creation has much lower overhead under Unix than it does
under Win32. However, thread creation in Win32 is much cheaper than
either. It is not unreasonable for a single processor Windows NT
machine to have 500 threads. most Unix machines would have serious
porformance problems with 500 processes, even if most of them were
not active."
Keep in mind that this was printed circa 1997, so the limits are
probably around 2 to 3 times higher right now. What I want to know
is: Are Linux processes more efficient than traditional Unix ones?
Roughly how many processes max. could Linux on, say, a 256MB
Pentium III - 700Mhz machine be able to handle?
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