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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Scott Long wrote:

> Joan Picanyol wrote:
> > * Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> [20040116 17:41]:
> >
> >>Be careful.... FreeBSD doesn't currently schedule different threads of the
> >>same program on different processors.
> >
> > Is this true no matter of scheduler/libmap.conf combination? Is it a
> > planned/required feature?
> >
> > qvb
> > --
> > pica
>
>
> Doug's statement was a bit too absolute.  The default threading package
> is libc_r, which is purely a userland threading package and does not
> allow threads to be scheduled on concurrent CPUs.  libkse does allow
> this, and can be enabled be either linking directly to it, or using the
> libmap.conf(5) facility.

I stand corrected.
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