From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 16 14:36:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D476157AC for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 14:36:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA06018; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 07:56:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 14:56:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Mark Jaffe Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Threads in 3.2? In-Reply-To: <37E16356.62F82477@rsv.ricoh.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Mark Jaffe wrote: > Folks, > > Earlier this year, we needed to have a special module built for us by a > vendor, due to restrictions in FreeBSD 2.2.x's handling of threads. I am > not privy to all the details, but the upshot was that the vendor's > software, normally built thread-safe on other platforms, did not perform > well. Now we are finally moving forward to 3.2 and we need to find out > if threads are behaving themselves in this version. Anyone care to > comment? I would try out 3.3 for threads a few bugfixes have been put in as well as some performance improvements using wrappers around poll. As far as deficiencies in the threads library, the pthread_cancel stuff is still not available at this time. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message