[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!tag open_issue_hurd]] Hurd servers / VFS libraries are multithreaded, roughly using one thread per incoming request. This is not the best approach: it doesn't really make sense to scale the number of worker threads with the number of incoming requests, but instead they should be scaled according to the backends' characteristics. The [[hurd/Critique]] should have some more on this. Alternative approaches: * Continuation-passing style * [libtcr - Threaded Coroutine Library](http://oss.linbit.com/libtcr/) * [[Erlang-style_parallelism]] --- See also: [[multiprocessing]].