Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 07:41:02 +0800 From: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Benchmarks: AMD64 vs i386 on Dual 246 Opteron Message-ID: <42F54A8E.8080704@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200507281057.43655.peter@wemm.org> References: <3.0.1.32.20050728080526.00aa4098@pop.redshift.com> <3.0.1.32.20050728092338.01207628@pop.redshift.com> <20050728163602.GC64153@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <200507281057.43655.peter@wemm.org>
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Peter Wemm wrote: >Mysql could also easily be affected by inefficiencies in the amd64 >pthread libraries too. > > > libthr on -CURRENT is very similar with Linux NPTL, think of NPTL's throughput, the inefficiencies might be in our kernel. Also the bottleneck in userland might be malloc which does belongs to thread library, Linux has ptmalloc which is thread friendly. David Xu
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