From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 22 07:14:36 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 CAF3937B401 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 07:14:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lug.org.uk (xinit.lug.org.uk [195.92.253.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9C7643F3F for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 07:14:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andy@strugglers.net) Received: from andy by lug.org.uk with local (Exim 3.33 #2) id 19Iqq2-0006DH-00 for freebsd-performance@freebsd.org; Thu, 22 May 2003 15:14:34 +0100 Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 15:14:34 +0100 From: Andy Smith To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030522141434.GQ10115@lug.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Uptime: 156 days X-URL: http://www.strugglers.net/~andy/ X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 14:14:37 -0000 On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 01:24:46PM +0200, 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) I have no idea about FreeBSD's threading implementation, but since Jeremy Zawodny looks after all of Yahoo!'s MySQL servers and is probably one of the larger users of MySQL on Earth, he _does_ have a wealth of real-world experience to quote from.