On Wednesday 14 March 2007 09:29:34 pm Randall R Schulz wrote: > 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...
Huh? Kernel 2.6+ has preemptive multitasking at the kernel level - a.k.a. a preemptable kernel. WinNT does not. It does do user-level preemptive multitasking but not kernel level. Never had it, supposedly will sometime soon. Of course, since the linux and windows kernels are fairly similar in design I'm sure Windows will borrow whatever was learned from Linux's implementation and then sue Novell for patent violations. (And you thought i was a pointy-haired guy who reboots his laptop by holding it upside down and shaking.) > > > 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. Ooh, that's just nasty. -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http://www.grassfire.org/142/petition.asp http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
