From owner-freebsd-java Tue Oct 29 21: 6:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AD1837B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 21:06:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48C0D43E42 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 21:06:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from emerger.yogotech.com (emerger.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA11413; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:06:28 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by emerger.yogotech.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g9U56RAi034071; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:06:27 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15807.26835.639866.242544@emerger.yogotech.com> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:06:27 -0700 To: Greg Lewis Cc: Nate Williams , Mikhail Kruk , java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wake up call for Sun? In-Reply-To: <20021030151812.A30986@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20021030142457.A30528@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <15807.23103.607937.532250@emerger.yogotech.com> <20021030151812.A30986@misty.eyesbeyond.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > I read the same thing, but I wasn't quite sure what he was driving at. > > > As I recall the slide mentioned something about threading problems. > > > So, either they were using the Linux version and HotSpot was crashing > > > or they wanted to use the native version on an SMP box and use some sort > > > of kernel threading so it would use all of the processors. > > > > For scalability purposes, they would need 'native' FreeBSD threads. The > > linux thread stuff works, but doesn't scale more. > > True. I note that there is now a KSE based pthreads library in -CURRENT. > This will eventually become the target for the JDK, which will hopefully > address a lot of issues in this regard. This will help alot. Now if we just get the legal stuff working. :) :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message