Re: [PATCH] improving O(1)-J9 in heavily threaded situations

Arjan van de Ven
2002-02-04T10:48:17Z

Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
>
> > One point that seems to get missed is that a group of java threads,
> > posix threads or sometimes forked processes combine to make an
> > application. [...]
>
> yes - but what makes them an application is not really the fact that they
> share the VM (i can very much imagine thread-based login servers where
> different users use different threads - a single application as well?),
> but the intention of the application designer, which is hard to guess.

sharing the same Thread Group ID would be a very obvious quantity to
check,
and would very much show the indication of the application author.