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To: Arnaud Installe <ainstalle@filepool.com>
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Subject: Re: high load & poor interactivity on fast thread creation
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At 04:11 PM 11/30/00, Arnaud Installe wrote:
>Could this be correct ?  Also, I haven't seen this happen with NT.  Could
>it be that Java on NT uses user-mode threading and creates threads much
>more slowly, resulting in a lower load ?

No. Java on NT uses proper NT threads. However, a thread on NT is a rather 
different beast to a cloned thread on Linux. I don't know whether the 
differences are important.

Ruth
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Ruth 
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