From owner-freebsd-java Sun Aug 26 10:27: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51D3637B405 for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 10:27:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA11356; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 11:27:00 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05941; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 11:27:00 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15241.12643.531098.837963@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 11:26:59 -0600 To: Arun Sharma Cc: Fuyuhiko Maruyama , java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: JVM and native threads In-Reply-To: <20010826101615.A11850@sharmas.dhs.org> References: <20010824233304.A32099@sharmas.dhs.org> <55vgjcqv87.wl@tripper.private> <20010825095746.A1015@sharmas.dhs.org> <55heuv0xtl.wl@tripper.private> <20010826101615.A11850@sharmas.dhs.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.95 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Another thing I forgot to mention: NGPT today is non-preemptive. A "bad" > user level thread can monopolize a kernel level thread and there's no > defence against that. For what it's worth, so is the green threads implementation used in the older JDK's. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message