Re: Thread implementations...

Alex Belits (abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us)
Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:54:58 -0700 (PDT)


On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:

> > > On the other hand you could say that the UNIX semantics are fine and
> > > are quite scalable, provided you use them sensibly. Some of these
> > > "problems" are due to applications not being properly thought out in
> > > the first place.
> >
> > #ifdef SARCASM
> >
> > "Thundering Herd Problem II", with all original cast... ;-) This time it's
> > not accept(), but poll(), and the whole thing is multithreaded...
> >
> > #endif
>
> Maybe it's because it's late, but I'm missing what you're getting at
> here...

Maybe I had to explain it better, I refer to the "thundering herd
problem" (mass-wakeup of processes, waiting on something) that was
discusseded in freebsd-hackers ML about a year ago. Discussion was
along the same lines, just processes were mentioned instead of threads.

--
Alex

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