arla-0.38 on FreeBSD/amd64

Tomas Olsson tol at stacken.kth.se
Tue Jan 11 10:04:46 CET 2005


Garrett Wollman <wollman at khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> writes:

> wollman at wollman-random-testing(47)$ /usr/local/arla/bin/fs getcacheparms
> Arla is using 26 of the cache's available 1851392 1K byte blocks
> 
What's the low_bytes (should be "target", really) setting? 

> If you are using pthreads, pthread_create() will give you multiple real
> threads; if you are using "true" LWP, the best you can do is multiple
> simulated threads inside a single real thread.
>
One can use locks to simulate LWP behaviour using pthreads, for example if
part of the application/libs depend on LWP semantics. We should do it, I
know. But it won't happen today. Patches are welcome, though. And
reminding us is good.

thanks
        /Tomas





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