Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:13:44 -0800 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: "Jonathon McKitrick" <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: threads.... Message-ID: <000301bf2ee5$2209cf80$021d85d1@youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911141307530.64927-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
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> > > 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. Agreed. > I'm fairly familiar with the issues associated with kernel-supported > threads (or lack thereof) in general. Then why would you say, "only needed for some level of SMP scalability"? DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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