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Date:      Mon, 27 Dec 1999 10:50:56 -0800 (PST)
From:      Kip Macy <kip@lyris.com>
To:        "Richard Seaman, Jr." <dick@tar.com>
Cc:        Steffen Merkel <d_f0rce@gmx.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel threads
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.05.9912271048340.24487-100000@luna.lyris.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991227124729.I5975@tar.com>

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I have not played with it for several months, so this may no longer be the 
case.

				-Kip

> Is this recently, or a while ago?  FreeBSD user threads used to use
> SIGVTALRM for its pre-emption signal.  This didn't count time in
> syscalls.  So, if you had a syscall (eg I/O) intensive thread, it
> would hog processor time.  I think that has been changed.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Seaman, Jr.           email: dick@tar.com
> 5182 N. Maple Lane            phone: 262-367-5450
> Chenequa WI 53058             fax:   262-367-5852
> 
> 





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