Re: OT: JBoss & Linux Threads

2001-12-17 Thread glynis
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 06:20:00PM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > Thanks for the hint. Does that mean you'd recommend using Blackdown's JDK > rather than Sun's? in my experience, i highly recommend blackdown's over sun's. sun's had this strange bug which reared its ugly head when the stack size wa

Re: OT: JBoss & Linux Threads

2001-12-16 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 06:20:00PM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: | Hi dman! | | Thanks for your quick reply! | | On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, dman wrote: | | > [...] | > What is a "real" thread? | | Unfortunately, that wasn't clarified further in the documentation. | | > [...] | > Perhaps they (or you

Re: OT: JBoss & Linux Threads

2001-12-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 18:25:28 +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > > Some people's definition of that seems to include hybrid user and kernel > > space threading, and in that case, the statement is correct. > > Is this a big disadvantage for Linux comp

Re: OT: JBoss & Linux Threads

2001-12-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 18:20:00 +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > When you say Java, you are probably referring to Sun JDK 1.3, right? Do > you know by chance why it doesn't support kernel threads on Linux? Because it would give Java developers under Un*x less incentive to "upgrade" from free Unices

Re: OT: JBoss & Linux Threads

2001-12-16 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi Ray! Thanks for your quick reply! On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > [...] > Some people's definition of that seems to > include hybrid user and kernel space threading, and in that case, the > statement is correct. Is this a big disadvantage for Linux compared to other OSes?

Re: OT: JBoss & Linux Threads

2001-12-16 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi dman! Thanks for your quick reply! On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, dman wrote: > [...] > What is a "real" thread? Unfortunately, that wasn't clarified further in the documentation. > [...] > Perhaps they (or you, I haven't checked the website) meant to say that > _java_ on linux doesn't use kernel

Re: OT: JBoss & Linux Threads

2001-12-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 17:52:15 +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > I read that Linux allegedly does not support "real threads". My questions > on this issue are: > > 1. Is that statement correct at all? That question is impossible to answer without a definition of what constitutes "real threading". So

Re: OT: JBoss & Linux Threads

2001-12-16 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 05:52:15PM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: | Hi! | | This is a rather general Linux kernel/glibc issue. In the JBoss | documentation | | http://www.jboss.org/online-manual/HTML/ch10s02.html | | I read that Linux allegedly does not support "real threads". My questions | o

OT: JBoss & Linux Threads

2001-12-16 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! This is a rather general Linux kernel/glibc issue. In the JBoss documentation http://www.jboss.org/online-manual/HTML/ch10s02.html I read that Linux allegedly does not support "real threads". My questions on this issue are: 1. Is that statement correct at all? 2. If its correct, wh