From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 11 02:04:11 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CEDD16A41F for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 02:04:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca (fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca [128.100.216.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3A4043D45 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 02:04:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from fields.fields.utoronto.ca (fields.localdomain [192.168.216.11]) by fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Fields 6.0) with ESMTP id j7B24Avf015803 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:04:10 -0400 Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by fields.fields.utoronto.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Fields WS 6.0) with ESMTP id j7B2496P003290; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:04:09 -0400 Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E840E5156C; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:04:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:04:08 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Aaron Peterson Message-ID: <20050811020408.GA54862@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <45d750d20508101822746c51e3@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45d750d20508101822746c51e3@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: threading - good, bad, ugly? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 02:04:11 -0000 --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:22:10PM -0400, Aaron Peterson wrote: > It used to be that lots of people told me threaded applications didn't > run efficiently on FreeBSD because the native threading libraries were > not very efficient. I remember some work being done on them for the > 5.x series though, and am wondering if this is still any issue to be > concerned about at all? MySQL performance was the thing people harped > on the most IIRC... Anyway, I was just curious about the status of > this. Perhaps there was never any issue and it was all talk. I > wouldn't know :-) Most of this discussion is only applicable to 4.x and older and does not consider the fundamentally different thread library in 5.x, which was rewritten to avoid the problems of the older version. Kris --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC+rIYWry0BWjoQKURAj65AKDN3a1KISXr1cVOzNWqwhfkCMj7wwCg4uLa wuesWA6vmxVHYITqp5TzyKY= =WzEv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW--