[MPlayer-users] Multiple threads

[GrandMasterLee]

On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 22:58, Jan Knutar wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Tuesday 24 September 2002 21:32, you wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> > DOCS/bugreports.html] Hi
> >
> > I was just wondering whether mplayer could actually be modified to
> > spawn multiple threads when playing movies, to speed up on OpenMOSIX
> > clusters made of old machines.
> 
> AFAIK, plain Mosix atleast does not migrate threads. And even so, the 
> I/O would kill all benefit from having a migrated mplayer process, and 
> it would rather stay local than migrate.


Mosix can migrate threads (see java and mosix), but it must be able to
access the data in a common place. In this respect the data must be
*local* to the *thread*. It seems to handle forks though, way better
than threads, because of the IPC needed to synchronize threads. (see
Mosix on Myrinet)





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