From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 24 15:15:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AFE537B5E7 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:15:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from boshea@ricochet.net) Received: from beastie.localdomain ([24.19.158.41]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <20000424221507.MPL12856.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@beastie.localdomain>; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:15:07 -0700 Received: (from brian@localhost) by beastie.localdomain (8.9.3/8.8.7) id PAA22992; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:24:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:24:43 -0700 From: "Brian O'Shea" To: Jason Evans Cc: Daniel Eischen , "Brian O'Shea" , A G F Keahan , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multithreaded server performance Message-ID: <20000424152443.X337@beastie.localdomain> Reply-To: boshea@ricochet.net Mail-Followup-To: Jason Evans , Daniel Eischen , Brian O'Shea , A G F Keahan , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000424010315.U337@beastie.localdomain> <20000424141957.W337@beastie.localdomain> <20000424141111.H31925@sturm.canonware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <20000424141111.H31925@sturm.canonware.com>; from Jason Evans on Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 02:11:11PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 02:11:11PM -0700, Jason Evans wrote: > > Could you elaborate? The text that I am using [1] warns about blocking > > system calls putting the process (and thus all user threads) to sleep. > > This book has no FreeBSD specific information, so anything specific to > > FreeBSD would be really interesting to hear. > > > > 1. Norton, Scott J., "Thread Time", p.24, Hewlett-Packard Professional > > Books, ISBN 0-13-190067-6 > > Read page 25 as well. Call conversion (referred to as wrappers) is > discussed there. Call conversion works very well for sockets. Wow, a page reference to the same book that I am reading. Kind of embarrassing that the answer to my question was on the page after the one that I mentioned. Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. -brian > > Jason > -- Brian O'Shea boshea@ricochet.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message