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

Ed Tomlinson
2002-02-04T12:33:06Z

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> 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.

I Tried this. Looks like not all (many?) apps actually use this.

Ed