From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Nov 13 22: 3:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B538E14BF8 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 22:03:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 22:03:40 -0800 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Kris Kennaway" , "Jonathon McKitrick" Cc: Subject: RE: threads.... Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 22:03:40 -0800 Message-ID: <000401bf2e65$ffd3d2f0$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > > Here's a perfect example of when threads matter.. i want the newest > > version of Licq. The newest, with all recent fixes, is 0.71. But i > > have to DL 0.61 because after that they became THREADED! I hope we have > > threads (kernel) soon. > > We already have threads. How exactly does licq (an ICQ client) rely on > kernel-supported threads (only needed for some level of SMP scalability?) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You're joking right? Or do you think that real-world server applications don't mind if you freeze everything while the kernel services a page fault or reads a file from a slow disk? DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message