Re: Threads

[Mads Bondo Dydensborg <madsdyd@challenge.dk>]

On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Michael Day wrote:

> 
> > I do not know a lot about it, but I suspect that there really isnt that
> > much to gain - if the system is not loaded, processes will keep getting
> > the same CPU - if the system is loaded, keeping a process on a single CPU
> > may hurt a lot more then it benefits.
> 
> Yes I think you are probably right, I am just wary of schedulers after
> seeing a graph once showing how often NT processes switched cpu, for
> little or no reason it seemed. What about the alternative pthreads
> scheduling policies - real time, round robin etc - do they have anything
> interesting or useful to offer, or are they only really targeted for
> specialised applications?

You are over my head here :-) I have no idea.

I have never actually been able to get my hands on real documentation for
pthreads.

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Mads Bondo Dydensborg.                               madsdyd@challenge.dk
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