From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 14 13:13:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD5D214C99 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:13:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:13:44 -0800 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Kris Kennaway" Cc: "Jonathon McKitrick" , Subject: RE: threads.... Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:13:44 -0800 Message-ID: <000301bf2ee5$2209cf80$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > 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