From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 11 12:39:10 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 AEA9F16A420 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:39:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dopplecoder@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00A7443D53 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:39:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dopplecoder@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z6so218862nzd for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:39:09 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=jXuLTIkoM82jFFDz7IdaPH6/Ndd4ja96po/7hvjz+KO6ZdIjOSkrCWHX/SDLG5cfvfKB077cN5jZSDnuFN5ua9FMi5zRstYbvE+p45wpiUgz47A0O/YbJqpljq6VLm+Ppqm8VsbzcXHq3TaAF80u09pP86T2951chyJBwIYt9NI= Received: by 10.36.129.8 with SMTP id b8mr1653330nzd; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:39:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.128.17 with HTTP; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:39:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <45d750d205081105394dd61cab@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:39:09 -0400 From: Aaron Peterson To: Dmitry Mityugov In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <45d750d20508101822746c51e3@mail.gmail.com> <20050811020408.GA54862@xor.obsecurity.org> <45d750d20508101912402e2311@mail.gmail.com> 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 12:39:10 -0000 On 8/11/05, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: > On 8/11/05, 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 did= n't > > > > run efficiently on FreeBSD because the native threading libraries w= ere > > > > not very efficient. I remember some work being done on them for th= e > > > > 5.x series though, and am wondering if this is still any issue to b= e > > > > concerned about at all? MySQL performance was the thing people har= ped > > > > 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 > > > > 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? >=20 > This article http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=3D04/12/27/1243= 207 > 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 >=20 > "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E" >=20 Thank you, that was exactly the type of thing I was looking for... Aaron