From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 19:50:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 19:50:38 -0400 Received: from sdsl-208-184-147-195.dsl.sjc.megapath.net ([208.184.147.195]:57644 "EHLO bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 19:50:26 -0400 Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 16:50:24 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: "J . A . Magallon" Cc: landley@webofficenow.com, Mikulas Patocka , Timur Tabi , "linux-kernel @ vger . kernel . org" Subject: Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads) Message-ID: <20010624165024.H8832@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: "J . A . Magallon" , landley@webofficenow.com, Mikulas Patocka , Timur Tabi , "linux-kernel @ vger . kernel . org" In-Reply-To: <0106220929490F.00692@localhost.localdomain> <20010624234101.A1619@werewolf.able.es> <01062412555901.03436@localhost.localdomain> <20010625003002.A1767@werewolf.able.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20010625003002.A1767@werewolf.able.es>; from jamagallon@able.es on Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 12:30:02AM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 12:30:02AM +0200, J . A . Magallon wrote: > They use fork(). > They port their app to solaris. > The performance sucks. > It is not Solaris fault. > It is linux fast fork() ... One for the quotes page, eh? We're terribly sorry, we'll get busy on adding some delay loops in Linux so it too can be slow. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm