From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Jan 4 11:47:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D4C14D6E for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 11:47:10 -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 (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA13393; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 12:47:09 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA14347; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 12:47:08 -0700 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 12:47:08 -0700 Message-Id: <200001041947.MAA14347@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bob Shaw Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux_base-6.1: Are Linux threads supported? In-Reply-To: <38724B62.522B5F79@securify.com> References: <38724B62.522B5F79@securify.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I'd like to install Blackdown JDK 1.2.2 RC3 on FreeBSD 3.4 > with linux_base-6.1. I know there are some Blackdown problems with > native threads, but I have not been able to determine whether there > are any FreeBSD-specific problems that will remain once Blackdown > gets their release fixed. Will native threads at the JDK level map to > native threads at the FreeBSD 3.4 level? (If so, is there any idea how > performance will compare to native Linux?) FreeBSD has no native 'kernel threads', so it won't help out. However, the Linux JIT is a *big* improvement. > We're intending to run a servlet engine, so native threads seems like > a necessity. Having the servlet engine block when a single thread > blocks sounds bad. See above. Using green-threads is probably more effecient for you on FreeBSD. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message