Question about threading

Doug White
Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:36:37 -0000

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Joe Halpin wrote:

> I've been told that threading in FreeBSD has historically had some
> problems. What is the current state of that (-STABLE and -CURRENT)?

Can you explain which problems? :)

Threading on 4.x has worked for some time, although its a somewhat limited
implmeentation. Its just userland pthreads so it doesn't parallelize well.

In 5.x, we have true kernel-based threads, but there's some problems with
certain programs.  Works great for KDE however. :)

--
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org