Re: Informix and Oracle in the same shop

Posted in 1997

David W Chan — Thu, 05 Jun 1997 00:30:11 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

news_reader@mew.corp.sgi.com (Pablo Sanchez) wrote: >o Informix isn't threaded because you have all 'em VP's running out > there. They aren't in the same execution space. They have their > own and thus there is *some* context switching. In a later post you said that IRIX is multi-threaded. Does this mean that all your operating system services runs in the same execution space and that there is no context switching between them? If I do a ps -e will there only be one process that provides all OS services? That's pretty impressive. David David W Chan GO5 Limited david@go5.com (work) dwc@cix.compulink.co.uk (home)