On Thursday 23 January 2003 08:42 pm, you wrote: > On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > Also remember that in even well developed OS's like FreeBSD, all a > > process's threads will execute only on one CPU. > > I doubt that - it certainly isn't the case on Linux and Solaris. > A thread may *start* execution on the same CPU as it's parent, but > native threads are not likely to be constrained to a specific CPU > with an SMP OS.
I am told that linuxthreads port available on freeBSD uses rfork and is capable of using multiple CPUs within a single process. Native freeBSD threads can not do that. Need to check that with freeBSD5.0. Shridhar ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
