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From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] rfork(), getss() etc etc
Date: Sat,  2 Sep 2000 22:51:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000903025123.1915.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>  of "Sat, 02 Sep 2000 06:52:57 EDT." <Pine.GSO.4.10.10009020555201.9425-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>

| 	You will not notice the effect simply benshmarking schedule(),
| but you will get big slowdown spread over the userland. It's not a pure
| theory - effect is quite visible.

Just out of curiosity, do any real linux programs use clone or pthreads
or whatever?  Say what you like about rfork, but lots of real programs
make good use of it.



  reply	other threads:[~2000-09-03  2:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-09-02  9:49 nigel
2000-09-02 10:52 ` Alexander Viro
2000-09-03  2:51   ` Scott Schwartz [this message]
2000-09-03  3:03     ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-05  5:32     ` Erik Theisen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-09-02  7:50 nigel
2000-09-02  8:57 ` Alexander Viro
2000-09-02  9:31   ` Alexander Viro
2000-09-02  9:39     ` Alexander Viro

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