From owner-freebsd-java Mon Feb 2 10:13:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA04200 for java-outgoing; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 10:13:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA04184 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 10:13:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA16204; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 10:54:13 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA28021; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 10:54:09 -0700 Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 10:54:09 -0700 Message-Id: <199802021754.KAA28021@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Damon Permezel Cc: dap@fubar.damon.com (Damon Permezel), jb@cimlogic.com.au, nate@mt.sri.com, SSANKARA.IN.oracle.com.ofcmail@in.oracle.com, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TimeSlicing in JVM In-Reply-To: <199802021623.KAA06394@damon.com> References: <199802021622.KAA06376@damon.com> <199802021623.KAA06394@damon.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe java" Damon Permezel writes: [ Timeslicing discussions ] There's only comment I'd like to make Re: changing the slice scheduler. If we do this, we also need a way to kick this in, and leave the 'old/standard/default' behavior the default, so that people don't end up with different behaviors depending on what OS they are running under. This is *very* important for me at work, and I suspect many others. But, it would also be a great thing for debugging and FreeBSD-only programs to have the usefulness of a better scheduler. Nate