From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 2 5: 3:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7E8014D26 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 05:02:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA18983 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 14:02:54 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA79672 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 14:02:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7B4814D26 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 05:02:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: from vigrid.com (pm3-pt85.pcnet.net [206.105.29.159]) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) with ESMTP id IAA12079; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 08:01:11 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <381EE0D0.874F6198@vigrid.com> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 08:02:08 -0500 From: "Daniel M. Eischen" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Julian Elischer , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Threads models and FreeBSD. (Next Step) References: <25676.941546688@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <381EDBCE.FD7FBA68@vigrid.com>, "Daniel M. Eischen" writes: > > >> >Disagree. I want lightweight processes to have their own quantum > >> >not limited (in total) to the parent process quantum. > >> > >> That would clearly kill the "lightweight" in "lightweight process"... > > > >That doesn't mean they each have to have the same quantum as a non-MT > >process. > > That has nothing to do with it. > > There is not much point in making a lightweight process facility > if the resulting processes are not lightweight. And quantum is _the_ attribute that makes them lightweight or non lightweight? They each share file descriptors, address space, etc. Dan Eischen eischen@vigrid.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message