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Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Cody Holland <cholland@redmoonbroadband.com>
Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux Threads
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

>On 2005-12-02 14:00, Michael Vince <mv@roq.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>For 6 Linux threads from my benchmarking and from what I have seen
>>some peoples posts gives poor performance compared to libthr or
>>libpthread I am using more of libthr over libpthread in 6.0 and have
>>been benchmarking best results.
>>
>>Try this in /etc/libmap.conf
>>[mysqld]
>>libpthread.so.2         libthr.so.2
>>libpthread.so           libthr.so
>>    
>>
>
>Unfortunately, "I have best results with libthr" is completely
>worthless, unless you also describe the exact process of the
>benchmark and why this particular benchmark is considered very
>important for your specific application vs. other types of
>workload :/
>  
>
OK well to put it in another way libthr has beaten libpthread (and 
everything else you can do in FreeBSD such as linux threads) in ANY 
MySQL benchmark test I have done.