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Date:      Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:38:39 -0500 (EST)
From:      David Miller <dmiller@sparks.net>
To:        Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
Cc:        Lauri Laupmaa <mauri@inspiral.net>, database@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mysql (smp) performance
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101101237250.73423-100000@search.sparks.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10101100821490.21469-100000@misery.sdf.com>

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On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Tom Samplonius wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Lauri Laupmaa wrote:
> 
> ...
> > It seems that on SMP mysql doesn't scale well. (currently testing on
> > dual 833 PIII and running on couple older dual systems)
> 
>   Because there is no such thing as SMP mysql.  It is a single process,
> and can only run on a single processor at a time.

My understanding is that it's single process but multithreaded.  When I
asked a very similar question on a mysql list a year ago I was told that
on linux it ran much better on multiple cpu's.

--- David



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