Re: Page faults and threads

2010-12-08 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Mark Terribile materrib...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me: when a thread hits a page fault in a multithread program on FreeBSD, is the entire program stopped waiting for the page to be loaded/made ready or just the one thread? Has this changed in

Re: Page faults and threads

2010-12-08 Thread Alejandro Imass
will catch the eye of some FBSD threading experts !    Mark Terribile --- On Wed, 12/8/10, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: From: Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org Subject: Re: Page faults and threads To: Mark Terribile materrib...@yahoo.com ___ freebsd

Page faults and threads

2010-12-07 Thread Mark Terribile
Hi, Can anyone tell me: when a thread hits a page fault in a multithread program on FreeBSD, is the entire program stopped waiting for the page to be loaded/made ready or just the one thread? Has this changed in recent versions with the changes to the scheduler? And, if you know, do other