From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 27 10:51:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from luna.lyris.net (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70BED14FBD for ; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 10:51:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kip@lyris.com) Received: from luna.shelby.com by luna.lyris.net (8.9.1b+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id KAA25219; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 10:50:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by luna.shelby.com with SMTP (MailShield v1.50); Mon, 27 Dec 1999 10:50:56 -0800 Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 10:50:56 -0800 (PST) From: Kip Macy To: "Richard Seaman, Jr." Cc: Steffen Merkel , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel threads In-Reply-To: <19991227124729.I5975@tar.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SMTP-HELO: luna X-SMTP-MAIL-FROM: kip@lyris.com X-SMTP-RCPT-TO: dick@tar.com,d_f0rce@gmx.de,freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-SMTP-PEER-INFO: luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message