From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 22 05:25:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C8BF37B401 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 05:25:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silver.he.iki.fi (silver.he.iki.fi [193.64.42.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2628543F85 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 05:25:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pete@he.iki.fi) Received: from he.iki.fi (localhost.he.iki.fi [127.0.0.1]) by silver.he.iki.fi (8.12.9/8.11.4) with ESMTP id h4MCPrk8001294; Thu, 22 May 2003 15:25:54 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from pete@he.iki.fi) Message-ID: <3ECCC1D1.50609@he.iki.fi> Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 15:25:53 +0300 From: Petri Helenius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030501 X-Accept-Language: English [en],Finnish [fi] MIME-Version: 1.0 To: patpro References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: threads and performances X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 12:25:58 -0000 I can confirm that mysql4.0 with linuxthreads works well and reliably even on SMP machines. Pete patpro wrote: > Hello, > > I use MySQL on several machines running freeBSD, and I was quite > surprised to read this : > http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000697.html > (and http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000203.html) > > here is the summary of the article : > > MySQL now runs very well on FreeBSD. I'm no longer steering people > toward Linux. There are two important things you should do to make > the FreeBSD/MySQL combo work well: (1) build MySQL with LinuxThreads > rather than FreeBSD's native threads, and (2) use MySQL 4.x or newer. > For more details, keep reading. > > Is this guy more or less wrong in his explanations about threads ? (I > was said so) > As I know nothing about threads, but I noticed a similar behavior on > MacOSX, and MySQL performances are as bad on FreeBSD as on MacOSX, > compared to linux. > > any explanation/confirmation/correction greatly appreciated. > > patpro > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-performance-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"