From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 4 11:18:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA23346 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 4 May 1998 11:18:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scanner.worldgate.com (scanner.worldgate.com [198.161.84.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA23229 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 11:18:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcs@znep.com) Received: from znep.com (uucp@localhost) by scanner.worldgate.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id MAA07308; Mon, 4 May 1998 12:18:30 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.znep.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA10826; Mon, 4 May 1998 12:16:33 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 12:16:32 -0600 (MDT) From: Marc Slemko To: Brett Glass cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD will need threads for Apache 2.0 In-Reply-To: <199805041537.JAA05720@lariat.lariat.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 4 May 1998, Brett Glass wrote: > According to the article at > > http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/news/0504/04apache.html > > version 2.0 will be threaded! This means that it'll have to emulate > threads if the OS doesn't provide them -- and this will probably > hurt performance. 2.0 should (future tense; it isn't written yet) be able to run just as well on systems without threads as Apache runs right now. Even if the system has threads, there are very valid reasons for not chosing to use them. But yes, for the optimum performance and features threads will be required. Probably layered on top of Netscape's NSPR. > > Guess that FreeBSD is likely to need threads.... A la Linux or > NeXTStep. FreeBSD has threads. Not necessarily all there yet, but I would expect 3.0 to have what is needed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message