Hello Roger, You wrote:
> It's been that way since the beginning of time (since 1994 at least). > I'm guessing that no one ever thought about it and were focused > on maximizing concurrency in any case. > > I found these words in the latest POSIX spec: > ... > I would appreciate it if some people out there would run this test > on other systems (Red Hat Linux, NETBSD, Apple OS X, HP-UX, IRIX) > and post the results. > > Thanks, > Roger Faulkner > Some results: os: Apple MacOS 10.4 (Darwin 8) ncpus: 1 cpu_speed: slow nthreads: *max* result: pass os: Apple MacOS 10.5 (Darwin 9) ncpus: 2 cpu_speed: medium nthreads: *max* result: fail os: Solaris 8 ncpus: 2 cpu_speed: slow nthreads: *max* result: pass os: Solaris 8 ncpus: 4 cpu_speed: medium nthreads: *max* result: fail os: Solaris 9 ncpus: 8 cpu_speed: medium nthreads: *max* result: fail Of course, the cases that passed above are likely only due to the fact that a) the number of CPUs is low, and b) the CPU execution speed itself is quite slow. Thanks to David Korn and yourself for finding and isolating this behavior! ---- David Morano mor...@computer.org _______________________________________________ ksh93-integration-discuss mailing list ksh93-integration-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ksh93-integration-discuss
