From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 25 12:09:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA00462 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:09:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00411 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:08:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03683; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:06:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: "John S. Dyson" cc: toshok@Hungry.COM (Christoph Toshok), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: threads performance In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:54:50 CDT." <199804251754.MAA11694@dyson.iquest.net> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:06:44 -0700 Message-ID: <3679.893531204@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The issue of kernel threads is on my plate, I have been *ordered* I think he was still wanting to know (and I'm darn curious myself) why our *user* threads are so slow in comparison to the user thread packages on other platforms. I'm not saying kernel threads aren't neat or needed, I'm just wondering what specific performance bogon we're suffering from in userland which makes it so? Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message