Subject: Re: rough SA patch (works on SMP)
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: felix zaslavskiy <felix@students.poly.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/24/2003 12:19:56
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 12:11, Rick Kelly wrote:
> Ron Roskens said:
> 
> >So a program like syslogd might benefit from threads, since it has
> >multiple inputs and multiple outputs?
> 
> Yup, here's syslogd on a single proc Solaris 8 system.
> 
>    170 root     3328K 1556K sleep   59    0   0:00.00 0.0% syslogd/11
> 
> That would be 11 threads/lwp.

The build process can be speed up cause its a good mix of IO/CPU bound
tasks.