Does FreeBSD have a pre-emptable kernel? One of the things Linux has really focused on lately is desktop interactive performance, so there may be performance tradeoffs vs. a kernel which can't pre-empt itself.
in the kernel config there is a preemption option which I believe is enabled in the default kernel. Generally you can turn this on and off, and use a different scheduler if you want to, but there isn't the myriad of options to tinker with in Linux. Since many don't bother switching from the defaults, and many others tend to choose wrong anyway, this might be a good thing.
Does FreeBSD have a pre-emptable kernel? One of the things Linux has really focused on lately is desktop interactive performance, so there may be performance tradeoffs vs. a kernel which can't pre-empt itself.
Yes. The FreeBSD kernel has preemption options to enable preemption. The distributed generic kernels have it enabled.
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