Re: [OFFTOPIC] Tomcat and j2sdk1.3

2000-11-06 Thread Przemyslaw Wegrzyn
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, therapy wrote: > > > within native threads the fork mechanism is not used. > [...] > is no need to copy parent process pages, cause all > threads are allowed (and have) to operate on the same copy. > > man clone Yeap, it's much more clear now after reading this manpage, t

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Tomcat and j2sdk1.3

2000-11-06 Thread Przemyslaw Wegrzyn
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, therapy wrote: > > > within native threads the fork mechanism is not used. > [...] > is no need to copy parent process pages, cause all > threads are allowed (and have) to operate on the same copy. > > man clone Yeap, it's much more clear now after reading this manpage,

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Tomcat and j2sdk1.3

2000-11-06 Thread therapy
> > this is due to the use of native threads by default in jdk1.3, which in > > linux are spawn as processess... so, everything's still fine :-) > > > Well, I thought _native_ threads are implemented as threads ;), not > processes. Isn't it less effective this way ? Forking is > time-expensive...

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Tomcat and j2sdk1.3

2000-11-06 Thread therapy
> > this is due to the use of native threads by default in jdk1.3, which in > > linux are spawn as processess... so, everything's still fine :-) > > > Well, I thought _native_ threads are implemented as threads ;), not > processes. Isn't it less effective this way ? Forking is > time-expensive..