From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 13 08:12:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1927C16A41F for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:12:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@aebc.com) Received: from imail.aebc.com (dns1.aebc.com [209.53.200.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A880043D48 for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:12:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@aebc.com) Received: from aebc.com [209.139.247.233] by imail.aebc.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.15) id AB9CBC200D4; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 01:13:16 -0700 Received: from chris [209.53.197.59] by aebc.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.15) id A50C20A301F2; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:47:24 -0700 From: "Chris St Denis" To: "'FreeBSD Questions'" Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:46:54 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 In-Reply-To: <20050811020408.GA54862@xor.obsecurity.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 Thread-Index: AcWeGR258kT/66prTiugv6gDioNMbgBfusqA Message-Id: <200508121647718.SM01472@chris> X-RBL-Warning: NOPOSTMASTER: "Not supporting postmaster@aebc.com" X-RBL-Warning: IPNOTINMX: X-RBL-Warning: SPAMHEADERS: This E-mail has headers consistent with spam [4000020e]. X-RBL-Warning: CMDSPACE: Space found in RCPT TO: command. X-Declude-Sender: chris@aebc.com [209.53.197.59] X-Declude-Spoolname: D350c20a301f2652a.SMD X-Note: Email was scanned by AE's anti-spam system in MX2 server. X-Note: This E-mail was sent from zz197059.cipherkey.net ([209.53.197.59]). X-Note: Total spam weight of this E-mail is 3. X-Spam-Tests-Failed: NOPOSTMASTER [1], IPNOTINMX [0], SPAMHEADERS [0], CMDSPACE [5] Subject: RE: threading - good, bad, ugly? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:12:35 -0000 So, what is better in 5.x? LinuxThreads or native threads? -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Kris Kennaway Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 7:04 PM To: Aaron Peterson Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: threading - good, bad, ugly? On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:22:10PM -0400, Aaron Peterson wrote: > It used to be that lots of people told me threaded applications didn't > run efficiently on FreeBSD because the native threading libraries were > not very efficient. I remember some work being done on them for the > 5.x series though, and am wondering if this is still any issue to be > concerned about at all? MySQL performance was the thing people harped > on the most IIRC... Anyway, I was just curious about the status of > this. Perhaps there was never any issue and it was all talk. I > wouldn't know :-) Most of this discussion is only applicable to 4.x and older and does not consider the fundamentally different thread library in 5.x, which was rewritten to avoid the problems of the older version. Kris