On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 09:26:48PM -0400, Sam Chill wrote: > On 10/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would think that there would be some sense of "urgency" to get the new > >rthreads implementation up-an-running (at least for the i386 and AMD64 > >platforms) otherwise OpenBSD will become less and less viable as a > >general purpose server platform (I like OpenBSD a lot) and really hate > >to see this happen... > Most daemons fork() instead of using threads. fork()ing has always > scaled nicely on the smp kernel. There are only a few popular daemons > that use threads *ahem* mysql. So this is not quite as big a deal as > you make it. > -Sam
Threads a big PITA. Best avoided. Creates more problems than solves. OpenBSD is about neatness, cleanliness and stability. Threads don't have any of them. :-) regards, Girish
