Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:54:12 +0400 From: Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com> To: Aaron Peterson <dopplecoder@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: threading - good, bad, ugly? Message-ID: <b7052e1e050811025456b47c34@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45d750d20508101912402e2311@mail.gmail.com> References: <45d750d20508101822746c51e3@mail.gmail.com> <20050811020408.GA54862@xor.obsecurity.org> <45d750d20508101912402e2311@mail.gmail.com>
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On 8/11/05, Aaron Peterson <dopplecoder@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/10/05, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> 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 wer= e > > > 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 harpe= d > > > 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 >=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? This article http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=3D04/12/27/124320= 7 compares performance of mySQL on OpenBSD 3.6, NetBSD 2.0, FreeBSD 5.3 and 4.10, Solaris Express (build 69) and Linux 2.4 and 2.6. --=20 Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia I ignore all messages with confidentiality statements "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"
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