On Sunday 01 May 2011 00:00:47 Ben Noordhuis wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 22:49, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> > It would make sense if the 10 threads used 100% CPU, but usually getting
> > 10 simultaneous transfers don't consume all CPU so adding more threads
> > should not make them run (much) longer.
>
> The more threads you have, the more time they'll spent in a blocked
> 'I/O pending' state. And a blocked thread won't immediately wake up
> when new data arrives.

Is not the only observation here that just the network bandwith is getting
divided among those threads?

Kamil
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