Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1

Bill Davidsen
2002-09-22T13:54:20Z

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Bill Huey wrote:

> Don't remember off hand, but it's like to be several times a second which is
> often enough to be a problem especially on large systems with high load.
>
> The JVM with incremental GC is being targetted for media oriented tasks
> using the new NIO, 3d library, etc... slowness in safepoints would cripple it
> for these tasks. It's a critical item and not easily address by the current
> 1:1 model.

Could you comment on how whell this works (or not) with linuxthreads,
Solaris, and NGPT? I realize you probably haven't had time to look at NPTL
yet. If an N:M model is really better for your application you might be
able to just run NGPT.

Since preempt threads seem a problem, cound a dedicated machine run w/o
preempt? I assume when you say "high load" that you would be talking a
server, where performance is critical.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.