Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:11:15 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> Cc: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: threads.... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911141307530.64927-100000@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <000401bf2e65$ffd3d2f0$021d85d1@youwant.to>
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On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, David Schwartz wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > > > > Here's a perfect example of when threads matter.. i want the newest > > > version of Licq. The newest, with all recent fixes, is 0.71. But i > > > have to DL 0.61 because after that they became THREADED! I hope we have > > > threads (kernel) soon. > > > > We already have threads. How exactly does licq (an ICQ client) rely on > > kernel-supported threads (only needed for some level of SMP scalability?) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > You're joking right? Or do you think that real-world server applications > don't mind if you freeze everything while the kernel services a page fault > or reads a file from a slow disk? I am referring to the case in question: an ICQ client. ICQ is not a high-performance server application, and does not require parallelism for performance reasons. I'm fairly familiar with the issues associated with kernel-supported threads (or lack thereof) in general. Kris ---- Cthulhu for President! For when you're tired of choosing the _lesser_ of two evils.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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