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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:23:55 +0300
From: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@gmail.com>
To: Julien Lirochon <jlirochon@cyanide-studio.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: mysql-server-4.1.16
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On 1/31/06, Julien Lirochon <jlirochon@cyanide-studio.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could I suggest to enable -DWITH_LINUXTHREADS by default on
> mysql41-server port ?
>
> I'm running 5.4 stable, and 6.0 stable, on several machines.
>
> CPUTYPE=3Dpentium4 or CPUTYPE=3Dathlon
> CFLAGS=3D -O2
>
> If I intall the mysql-server port by "make install", the resulting
> mysqld just can't work. It keeps crashing again and again, even under
> very very low stress.
>
> I have no more problem with -DWITH_LINUXTHREADS. I don't know if any
> other thread lib are working the same way or better, but I just want to
> say that the default port was totally unusable for me. I think it could
> be more suitable if it just worked with the default setup.

This belongs to a much larger ongoing discussion on
this and many other mailing lists as well as forums,
newsgroups and what not.

A simple answer to your questions would be:
"It's not such a great idea".