From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 23 13:54:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.ne.home.com (ha1.rdc1.ne.home.com [24.2.4.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43FD737C613 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:54:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgowdy@home.com) Received: from cx443070a ([24.4.93.90]) by mail.rdc1.ne.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <20000323215413.WHWW14878.mail.rdc1.ne.home.com@cx443070a>; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:54:13 -0800 Message-ID: <000901bf9513$964e62e0$0100000a@vista1.sdca.home.com> From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" To: "James" , , "Jon Rust" References: <000f01bf946b$5ae2fca0$0100000a@vista1.sdca.home.com> Subject: Re: SMP specifics.......????????? Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 14:03:14 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > At 5:58 PM -0800 3/22/00, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > >As for FreeBSD's SMP, I've not seen any specifics on the implemenatation, > >except that I hear 4.0 includes linux/processor threads, which allows a > >multithreaded program's threads to use either processor, allowing a single > >highly active multithreaded process to use the SMP setup. > > This doesn't hold true at least for MySQL, which runs pittifully under 4.0 SMP. > > jon I believe that you must compile a program using the linuxthreads library in order to get the modified fork() implementation To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message