From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 20 12:26:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 837CC16A4CE for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 12:26:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.mikehost.net (lvs-1.voxel.net [207.99.115.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2606943D41 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 12:26:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@mike2k.com) Received: by mail.mikehost.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 638721BE8A; Thu, 20 May 2004 11:32:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mikehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61DFB1BE88; Thu, 20 May 2004 11:32:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 11:32:10 -0700 (PDT) From: mike X-X-Sender: mike@sql01.internal.mikehost.net To: Brooks Davis In-Reply-To: <20040520180534.GA28248@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Message-ID: References: <200405191211.25786.peter@wemm.org> <20040519172913.GU601@funkthat.com> <20040519172913.GU601@funkthat.com> <5.2.0.9.2.20040520041642.03db2188@mail.ojoink.com> <5.2.0.9.2.20040520085802.015fc2d0@mail.ojoink.com> <00a501c43e89$b39ed8b0$7b07000a@int.mediasurface.com> <20040520180534.GA28248@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> mike: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is MySQL nearly twice as fast on Linux/AMD64 Vs. FreeBSD/AMD64? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 19:26:52 -0000 well i am not sure then if we're proving that statement wrong here then. obviously there's still some incompatibilities or whomever is developing the threading stuff in freebsd should be testing against mysql. i need to setup a production mysql server soon, it will be a dual 1.8ghz opteron, and i would love to run freebsd amd64 on it, but right now, it wouldn't make sense if i could put mandrake linux on it and basically out of the box outperform freebsd as much as 200%... On Thu, 20 May 2004, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:39:01AM -0700, mike wrote: > > i don't know if this is any idea - but why isnt something like > > linuxthreads ported to amd64? i would think with the 64-bit architecture, > > it could be even better than the i386 version. > > > > again, i am threading-retarded, so if getting linuxthreads working on > > freebsd 5.x on AMD64 is "not appropriate" because freebsd 5.x is supposed > > to have it's own better threading library now, then just ignore me; but it > > seems like linuxthreads has always been the fastest implementation on > > freebsd. i'd be willing to put $$ towards accelerating the effort to get > > mysql performance on freebsd 5.x AMD64 better. i don't know what the best > > setup is, but whatever needs to be done and a way to patch/reproduce it. > > With libpthread and libthr, the linuxthreads port should be redundent. > > -- Brooks > > -- > Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. > PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 >