From owner-freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 9 01:59:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCAA616A41C for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 01:59:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A488B43D4C for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 01:59:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A78D3D48 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:58:41 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 21:59:50 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <42A76A56.6869.5459055A@localhost> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Cc: Subject: no kernel threads => no true multi tasking? X-BeenThere: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Threading on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 01:59:52 -0000 Folks, I don't know enough to reply this this post: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.devel/2879 The part I'm concerned about: "As far as I know, this only happens on FreeBSD 4.11 systems where there are no kernel threads and hence no true multi-tasking. More precisely, there is no task scheduling (time-sharing) between the threads." Can someone help educate me please? thanks -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/