Re: JVM and threads

2002-09-04 Thread Marco Trevisan
Thanks to all you guys! :) I will try it (most probabily next week) and report back to the mailing list. The main reasons are: 1) I would like to deploy on multi-processor Linux systems without lacking in scalability; 2) If it works, not only Catalina will benefit from this, but the overall se

Re: JVM and threads

2002-09-04 Thread Vincent Touquet
Cool I'm curious too, as I have an MP server... regards v On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:30:33AM +0200, Marco Trevisan wrote: >Thanks to all you guys! :) > >I will try it (most probabily next week) and report back to the mailing >list. >The main reasons are: >1) I would like to deploy on multi-proc

Re: JVM and threads

2002-09-04 Thread Ingo Rockel
I just had a look at the mail-archive of their mailing-list. There is a statement clarifying, their stuff will NOT work with current JVMs. Look here: http://www-124.ibm.com/pipermail/pthreads-users/2002-August/000250.html It seems also Sun will not support NGPT anytime soon, as they focus on

Re: JVM and threads

2002-09-04 Thread Hui
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 10:30:46AM +0200, Ingo Rockel wrote: > I just had a look at the mail-archive of their mailing-list. There is a > statement clarifying, their stuff will NOT work with current JVMs. > > Look here: > http://www-124.ibm.com/pipermail/pthreads-users/2002-August/000250.html >

Re: JVM and threads

2002-09-04 Thread Hui
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 07:59:30AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > As I wrote in a previous message, Sun is abandoning M:N threading; > see http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/threads/threads.html > NGPT is probably a dead end. I suspect Gnu and Linux will continue > on with kernel-based threads, but with

Re: JVM and threads

2002-09-04 Thread Hui
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 08:41:07AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > You're referring to Linuxthreads? It has a couple other problems, > like pid being different for each thread, and thread startup and > shutdown > not being as fast as thread maniacs (you know, the people who create > more than 1 thread/

Re: JVM and threads

2002-09-04 Thread Hui
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:28:37AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > I have no idea what Ulrich is planning for his linuxthread replacement, > but once it's out in the open, we can probably finally fix issues > like signal delivery. Is there some public docs on this project ? I'm out of the loop as far a