Threads & SMP

[Greg Lewis]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 10:48:43PM +0000, Andrew Liles wrote:
> I have successfully installed jvm1.4.2 + patchset 6 and have it running a 
> complex non-GUI application with no problem on a 2xCPU FreeBSD 4.9.
> 
> What should I expect regarding applications with more than 1 Java thread on 
> a multiprocessor box?  Should I expect to see the work spread across CPUs?

On FreeBSD 5.x you should expect to see the load spread across both CPUs
if you are using libkse of libthread as a threading library.  On FreeBSD
4.x the only threading library is libc_r which won't spread the load across
the CPUs.

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