Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 14 Jan 2002 15:16:45 -0500 |
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On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 13:39, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
> > You're claiming that preemption by nature is not Unix-like? > > Kernel preemption is not traditionally part of UNIX.
True original AT&T was non-preemptible, but it also didn't originally have paging. Today, Solaris, IRIX, latest BSD (via BSDng), etc. are all preemptible kernels.
Ask Core whether SMPng in FreeBSD 5.0 will include preempt, I think they are still debating.
Robert Love
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