From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 8 10: 4:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E87715112 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 10:04:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA07565; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 10:27:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 10:27:52 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: threading and performance In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > If FreeBSD doesn't have multi-threading, or not to the level many other > OSes have, how does it perform so well under loads and multitask so > smoothly? Our threads library is amazingly scalable, the only problem is that it will not distribute itself over multiple processors. starting/killing several thousand threads and context switching between them is blindingly fast. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message