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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Scalability problem from route refcounting
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 06:45:20PM -0700, Kip Macy wrote:
> Apologies in advance if you have already answered this question
> elsewhere - can you point me to a HOWTO for replicating the test in my
> local environment?

Well it's not completely spelled out...but most of the steps are
documented in http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/mysql.html and
references therein.

You'll probably want to use my kris-contention p4 branch to avoid the
scaling bottlenecks we have identified and solved so far.

Kris