Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 22:03:40 -0800 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@hub.freebsd.org>, "Jonathon McKitrick" <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: threads.... Message-ID: <000401bf2e65$ffd3d2f0$021d85d1@youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911132002210.64251-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
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> 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?)
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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
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