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Jordan Hubbard Interviewed On OPN's #FreeBSD
flynn_nrg writes: "As a lot of you already know, an interview with Jordan was held Sunday January 27 at 10:30 PM EST. The log of the interview has been posted in bsdvault.net. The complete text of our question and answer session with Jordan Hubbard can be found here. Jordan was mainly asked about his work at Apple and SMPng, the new SMP code that will debut on 5.0. Enjoy ..."
[23:32] I think the coolest feature of 5.0 will be the ferret thread. This is a kernel thread which runs around throughout the system and randomly moves things around, playfully changes file modes, "bites" through open connections and just generally raises havok. We feel that this
[23:32] feature will make the computer more of a pet than a simple inanimate object
Lol, this sounds more like a Microsoft feature.
BTW, was anyone else annoyed that this 'interview' was done in an IRC style format? I mean, it's kind of hard to sort out and read that way.
The World is Yours.
Every time there is a BSD discussion someone posts this. I salute your originallity. Yes, you're a troll, and yes I'm biting, so I suppose I'm no better than you. But for gods sake come up with something more original
And if you can't well I'll just take it as read that spreading anti-BSD FUD.
As for me I'll continue using BSD. It does what I want it to do and it does it well. And I've never used anything that even came close. If it does die then so be it. I'll simply go out and find another OS
But untill I hear otherwise I'll carry on using it.
Do you mind, your karma has just run over my dogma.
There's a bit of background here: currently FreeBSD has a much-maligned userland thread scheduler, typically used to handle pthreads and other rightful divisions of a process. It also uses a simple round-robin kernel scheduler to handle "heavy" processes. KSE 3, OTOH, will support many new features:
- LWP support for both user and kernel threads. This is similar to
the implementation in Solaris, which has an extraordinarily well-written
scheduler.
- More progress has been made toward a fully pre-emptable kernel, which
will be very useful on large SMP systems.
- Real-time scheduling (as in QNX and RTOS) will be supported, which
should greatly improve performance on native video recording and playback
software as well as games.
- FIFO support will be added, as well as a more fine-grained way to set
priorities.
--rwatson[00:11] thanks for organizing this
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[00:11] talk to y'all later!
[00:11] * _jkh waves
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[00:13] whaz000p bitches; I am back for idling.