Re: SMP & threads for SQL queries

In article <3239e26c.798075912@news.dtc.net>, John Matzen <wizard@mrinc.com> wrote: > >>John Stevens <jstevens@bamboo.verinet.com> wrote in article >><516t1c$9ru@bamboo.verinet.com>... >>> >| Or even (ick!) SCO. >>> > >>> >Support 'em both. SCO has been less trouble. >>> >>> What makes SCO or Solaris more real than Linux? > >Because, SCO UnixWare and Solaris (and NT, and OS/2, and even Windows >95 (!flames,plez)) support multithreaded applications. Linux does What are you talking about? Linux has both user space and kernel space threads. I also haven't found threads to be so great compared to multiple processes. Sure they can be usefull, but they're not that great. -- |Gazing up to the breeze of the heavens \\ on a quest, meaning, reason | |came to be, how it begun \\ all alone in the family of the sun | |curiosity teasing everyone \\ on our home, third stone from the sun. | |Trent Piepho (xyzzy@u.washington.edu) -- Metallica |