Re: Linux or FreeBSD a better choice for threads/tasking?

["Sander Pilon" <nospam.sander@3dnews.net.spamsucks>]

"Dima Volodin" <dvv@dvv.org> wrote in message
news:3AC7880C.24EE5D01@dvv.org...
> David Schwartz wrote:
> >
> > Mike Silva wrote:
> > > Is either of these OSes (on x86) the preferred choice based on
completeness
> > > and performance of their threading implementations?  I'm looking to
improve
> > > my skills at both raw POSIX threads programming and Ada task
programming
> > > (GNAT) and want to make the right OS choice, if there is one.  Thanks
for
> > > any comments.
> > >
> > > Mike
> >
> >         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?
>

Probably not.

I've got a application that uses threads (25 of them), and on linux it can
run for hours and hours without crashing, and on freebsd 4.2-stable it goes
down with buserrors or segfaults in minutes. ( we're developing it, so
"weeks" is not yet an option :)