From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 28 14: 9:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [209.157.82.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 083B414F7B for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:09:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 93804 invoked by uid 100); 28 Apr 1999 21:09:18 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Apr 1999 21:09:18 -0000 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:09:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Meyer To: Matthew Reimer Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MFC pthreads before 3.2 is released? In-Reply-To: <37277653.1EF64476@vpop.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been meaning to ask about something related to this. I've got a box that's doing some light services - apache, PostgreSQL, Perforce;, running the distributed.net code (and if you're not a member of team FreeBSD, you should be), and playing workstation. Some comments on the PostgreSQL list make me think that adding a second processor wouldn't be that much of a benefit, as the locking in the -STABLE branch increases the contention. Anyone got advice on this? Thanx,