Re: high load & poor interactivity on fast thread creation

From: Ruth Ivimey-Cook (Ruth.Ivimey-Cook@arm.com)
Date: Wed Dec 27 2000 - 06:01:18 EST

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At 04:11 PM 11/30/00, Arnaud Installe wrote:
>Could this be correct ? Also, I haven't seen this happen with NT. Could
>it be that Java on NT uses user-mode threading and creates threads much
>more slowly, resulting in a lower load ?

No. Java on NT uses proper NT threads. However, a thread on NT is a rather
different beast to a cloned thread on Linux. I don't know whether the
differences are important.

Ruth

Ruth Ivimey-Cook ruthc@sharra.demon.co.uk Technical Author, ARM Ltd ruth.ivimey-cook@arm.com

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