From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 1 23:29:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3A2637B401 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 23:29:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [207.200.153.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84D0F43F93 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 23:29:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 190bB0-0007iY-00; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 21:52:46 -0800 Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 21:52:44 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: Nate Williams In-Reply-To: <16009.61647.371831.725618@emerger.yogotech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Thorsten Mauch cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD the right platfrom for JBOSS ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 07:29:28 -0000 On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Nate Williams wrote: ... > However, if you have to read/write files, then the simple threading > model used by FreeBSD (pthreads and/or green-threads) doesn't work well, > because it ends up blocking inside the syscall. ... Well, libpthread appears to be using KSE on 5.0. It will interesting to see if KSE is as light as green-threads are for IO intensive applications, but still be good for CPU intensive programs. KSE has a lot of promise. Tom