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Cc: "Karl H. Beckers" <karl.h.beckers@gmx.net>,
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Subject: Re: threading in FreeBSD (acx_pthreads)
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John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> writes:
> Also, FWIW DES, at work when folks did benchmarks for Java stuff on
> 6.x, libkse had better performance than libthr.  Granted, Java is a
> bit more of an odd benchmark b/c it is thread happy and thus more
> suited to a M:N model than most other threading workloads.

It was never a matter of performance.  Varnish simply did not work with
libkse.  We had constant crashes under load which went away when we
switched to libthr.

DES
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