Re: JVMs and NGPTs

Ignacio,

You will find that none of the current JVM's, Sun's, IBM's or BEA's work
with NGPT  All of them make use of non-standard calls in Linuxthreads
that make direct use of NGPT impossible, they also rely on many work
around to bugs in Linuxthreads.

IBM is working on NGPT support for their JVM and the Jrockit folks have
responded to my queries stating they too are working on NGPT support for
an upcoming version.  I don't know if Jrockits purchase by BEA will
change those plans or not, I hope not.

E-mail's I received from SUN on query about NGPT support have stated
that IA64 is priority now and that currently there is no NGPT support in
the works.


Steven


On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 05:48, Ignacio Galpón wrote:
> 
> I'm currently using Weblogic 6.1sp2 application server over SUNs Linux JVM (1.3.1_01) on RedHat Linux 7.2 (kernel 2.4.18) with a quite big application.
> 
> I readed a few months ago this article (http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/java2/) at IBM Developer Works site, and I get really impressed on how a different thread model can improve a JVM behaviour.
> 
> Now I'm planning in compiling the NGPT support on kernel and changing the libpthread on the system, my question is: There should be an improvement in application's performance just by changing the thread model or does Bea Systems has to modify Weblogic in order to properly manage the new threads?
> 
> btw, is it planned a patch against the new 2.4.19 Linux kernel?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Ignacio G. Dupont
> 
> 
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