From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 11 02:18:29 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 CC63F16A41F for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 02:18:29 +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 5789643D48 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 02:18:29 +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 j7B2ISvf017040 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:18:28 -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 j7B2IS6P003944; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:18:28 -0400 Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E73CB5137D; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:18:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:18:27 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Aaron Peterson Message-ID: <20050811021827.GA67794@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <45d750d20508101822746c51e3@mail.gmail.com> <20050811020408.GA54862@xor.obsecurity.org> <45d750d20508101912402e2311@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45d750d20508101912402e2311@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: FreeBSD Questions , Kris Kennaway 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 02:18:29 -0000 --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:12:36PM -0400, Aaron Peterson wrote: > On 8/10/05, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > 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 :-) > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > Kris >=20 > Sounds like I shouldn't have any problems then since I'm all upgraded > to 5.3 and 5.4 for the servers I manage. Do you know of any > performance comparisons for MySQL performance between FreeBSD 5.x and > other operating systems one might run MySQL on? Not off-hand, if any exist they would have been discussed on the mailing lists, so you should search for them. Kris --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC+rVzWry0BWjoQKURAr83AKDtkA0JdUSdjdjhVAerSWiHBgBcwQCfWFZ3 8tkmaxMkz2YKsPBYIRBptg4= =2hqS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI--