From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 23 13:56:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vcnet.com (mail.vcnet.com [209.239.239.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A1C637C680 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:56:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jpr@vcnet.com) Received: (qmail 3844 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2000 21:56:21 -0000 Received: from joff.vc.net (HELO ?209.239.239.22?) (209.239.239.22) by mail.vcnet.com with SMTP; 23 Mar 2000 21:56:21 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <000901bf9513$964e62e0$0100000a@vista1.sdca.home.com> References: <000f01bf946b$5ae2 fca0$0100000a@vista1.sdca.home.com> <000901bf9513$964e62e0$0100000a@vista1.sdca.home.com> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:56:20 -0800 To: "Jeremiah Gowdy" , "James" , From: Jon Rust Subject: Re: SMP specifics.......????????? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ya know, I believe you're right. Perusing the freebsd-hackers list, I see mention of this a few times. I stand corrected. jon At 2:03 PM -0800 3/23/00, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: >> 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