performance tuning

Petri Helenius pete at he.iki.fi
Mon Nov 15 13:47:54 PST 2004


Petri Helenius wrote:

> Julian Elischer wrote:
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>>> There is work proceeding on 3 fronts.
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>>> * libthr continues to be improved by Mike.
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> Is there a guideline when one should consider using libthr? I haven't 
> tried libthr for quite a while.


To comment myself, just tried libthr and it seems to get stuck on umtx 
fairly easily and the application just sits idle. I just libmap.conf:ed 
pthread->thr. Average lifetime was around five seconds before it hung. 
On libpthread the same piece of software runs for months uninterrupted.

Pete



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