Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 00:22:23 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Thomas Schuerger <schuerge@wurzelausix.CS.Uni-SB.DE> Cc: mi@aldan.algebra.com, jdp@polstra.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup Message-ID: <38518.924150143@noop.colo.erols.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Apr 1999 21:23:30 %2B0200." <199904131923.VAA21668@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de>
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Thomas Schuerger wrote in message ID <199904131923.VAA21668@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de>: > cvsup is mostly based on disk (and network) I/O, so there shouldn't > be a problem with properly updating the GUI. Someone said it is > done in a separate process, so I still wonder why the GUI is updated > so slowly on my PII/450. My bet is that when cvsup blocks on network or disk i/o, the process is blocked (since we don't have kernel support for thread scheduling), so the display update gets blocked as well... Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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