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KSE Progress On FreeBSD SMP Environment

Posted by Hemos on from the threads-for-the-world dept.

Dan writes "This is a significant milestone to be shared with everyone! Khairil Yusof reports that libkse is now running quite well on his FreeBSD 5.1+ current based SMP system. He has tested a bunch of apps on his system, taking the approach of enabling kse one app at a time. He reports a current uptime of 23hrs with these apps running with libkse.so.1, and basically a usable Gnome 2.2 desktop environment. He says that with recent updates, you can now see the threads with top(8). Kernel Scheduler Entities (KSE), is a kernel-supported threading system similar in design to Scheduler Activations [Anderson, et. al.]. It strikes a balance between user-level (1:N) and kernel-level (1:1) threading models, giving most of the advantages of both, and few of the disadvantages of either."

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  1. bsd problems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you BSD fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a BSD machine (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this BSD machine, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

    In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.

    I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various BSDs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a BSD that has run faster than its Windows counterpart, despite the faster chip in the BSD machine. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 MHz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that BSD is a superior machine.

    BSD addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a BSD over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.

  2. Linux 2.5 is living, *BSD is not! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Simple as.

  3. I'm not trolling here but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    is *BSD that popular. I don't think I know many people who use it (if any). Probably are there more windows 3.11 users out there? Am I right?

    Judging by the posts in this section - not popular ??!

    Can someone just post the facts.