SUMMARY: multi-threaded applications

From: Mike's List (mikelist@sky.net)
Date: Thu May 30 2002 - 11:32:39 EDT


Use top or prstat -a and look at the LWP (lightweight processes) or the
THR (threads) column, if it's more than 1 it's multi-threaded. However,
someone did mentioned that an application that is multi-threaded does not
necessarily means it's taking advantage of multiple cpus.

- Mike

On Wed, 29 May 2002, Mike's List wrote:

> How do/can you determine an application is multi-threaded or not?
> Is there a command execute to find out? ie. ldd, crle, etc. on an
> application and what to look for?
>
> The latest bind 9.x or apache 2.x supposed to take advantage of multi-cpus
> servers, but how do you go about testing and determines that these software
> is actually working? or other applications for that matter?
>
>
> - Mike
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