From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: ffc1e,d0d32a18bbb61bb0 X-Google-Attributes: gidffc1e,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d0d32a18bbb61bb0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-01 18:33:49 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!209.50.235.254!europa.netcrusader.net!63.208.208.143!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!209.10.34.151!newsfeed.sjc.globix.net!nntp.webmaster.com!not-for-mail From: David Schwartz Newsgroups: comp.programming.threads,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD a better choice for threads/tasking? Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 18:26:24 -0700 Organization: WebMaster, Incorporated Message-ID: <3AC7D540.6A7C00EB@webmaster.com> References: <3AC7845B.F3314769@webmaster.com> <3AC7880C.24EE5D01@dvv.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: joelkatz.goldrush.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nntp.webmaster.com 986174784 17735 206.171.168.130 (2 Apr 2001 01:26:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@webmaster.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Apr 2001 01:26:24 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: supernews.google.com comp.programming.threads:3450 comp.lang.ada:6324 Date: 2001-04-02T01:26:24+00:00 List-Id: Dima Volodin wrote: > > In my experience, multithreaded programs running agressively on FreeBSD > > inevitably crash. The Linux threading model is much stabler. I've tried > > both FreeBSD's libc_r and the port of LinuxThreads. > What does it mean "running aggressively"? I have a multithreaded program > that runs on a 3.5-STABLE FreeBSD box for weeks at a time without > crashing at all. Am I not aggressive enough? By "running agressively" I mean performing a large number of tasks, stressing all aspects of the system (especially vm and networking), on an SMP machine. DS