Is FreeBSD the right platfrom for JBOSS ?

Tom Samplonius tom at sdf.com
Tue Apr 1 23:29:28 PST 2003


On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Nate Williams wrote:

...
> However, if you have to read/write files, then the simple threading
> model used by FreeBSD (pthreads and/or green-threads) doesn't work well,
> because it ends up blocking inside the syscall.
...

  Well, libpthread appears to be using KSE on 5.0.  It will interesting
to see if KSE is as light as green-threads are for IO intensive
applications, but still be good for CPU intensive programs.  KSE has a lot
of promise.

Tom



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