From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 14 13:11:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 52CC714C99; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:11:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40C4D1CD443; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:11:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:11:15 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: David Schwartz Cc: Jonathon McKitrick , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: threads.... In-Reply-To: <000401bf2e65$ffd3d2f0$021d85d1@youwant.to> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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