Yes, I often have 10K plus processes running on a production server. It's caused troubles at time due to misbehaving processes, but mostly it's been ok. Linux i

Yes, I often have 10K plus processes running on a production server. It's caused troubles at time due to misbehaving processes, but mostly it's been ok. Linux is surprisingly good at this (wasn't always the case). For the times when some of my processes were misbehaving, it was easy to identify which processes were misbehaving with "ps", "top", etc and resolve with "nice", "kill". This killed the bad connections without bringing the rest of the app down. Sysadmins like me.