On Wednesday 14 March 2007 20:56, Kai Ponte wrote: > ... > > ...and don't forget that WinNT (XP/Vista/2003) is not preemptive > multitasking either. At least not at the kernel level like Linux 2.6+ > is.
You really ought to check your facts. You'll give software managers a bad name... > I was just trying to kill some processes on a Win2003 system today > and had to wait for the kernel to finish some tasks before it would > die. That can happen on Linux, too. Try to kill a process in a 'D' wait state. It's not possible. Extended duration of a D wait does imply a bug (usually in a disk or file system driver), but it happens. > -- > kai Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
