[mythtv-users] 2 short questions.

[nate s]

Weather or not ps will show threads as their own processes depends on
whether your glibc is compiled with NPTL (native postix threading
library) or linuxthreads.  NPTL is a new better threading
implementation that requires a 2.6 kernel.

-Nate


On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:46:05 -0400, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> thor wrote:
> 
> >On Wednesday 20 October 2004 11:41 am, sschaefer1 at woh.rr.com wrote:
> >
> >>I was just hoping to reduce the number of mythbackend
> >>processes/childs/threads. I don't watch that much TV and I can't see why
> >>there would need to be that many waiting threads/processes.
> >>
> >>
> >       The backend keeps a pool of instatiated threads around to serve requests as
> >they come in. This avoids the cost of starting a new thread on every request,
> >which is a good thing.
> >
> >       1) Threads in the same process share the same memory.
> >       2) A non executing thread uses (essentially) no CPU resources.
> >
> >       Given 1 and 2, I personally fail to understand why people seem so concerned
> >with how many threads are in use.
> >
> >
> I agree.  Besides, what else are you going to do with your processor
> cycles?  Sure, the idle thread *seems* to need a lot of processor time,
> but my system has been doing great since I installed BOINC/SETI (
> http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/ ), even though it took all the
> processor time away from the idle thread.  ;)
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> 
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