From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 2 22:01:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA10908 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 22:01:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA10902; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 22:01:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA00325; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 01:01:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199803030601.BAA00325@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? In-Reply-To: from Tom at "Mar 2, 98 08:54:46 pm" To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 01:01:13 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom said: > > On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, John S. Dyson wrote: > > > > It seems to me that they even have kernel threading too, although it > > > seems to me that their threads are a bit heavy (almost pseudo-processes). > > > > > So will we in 3.0. (I already have the infrastructure, and work is kind > > of in progress for a good API interface.) > > What about this AIO and database stuff you kept alluding too? Or is it > secret? :) > AIO is going to be in there (it is actually already there, modulo a few known bugs.) AIO also needs manpages and a few docs. I think that most of the system calls are there, and if you just refer to the POSIX.4 specs, it should work okay (except for the signal handling still being a little wrong.) > > It is kinda of interesting that Solidtech ported their Solid server to > FreeBSD 2.2, but performance is so-so because of lack of threading. > That does not surprise me. Oracle is the same way (whoops!!!), because the current FreeBSD port doesn't use AIO. (The port was done a long time ago.) It is mostly used in the NC server, and doesn't really need high perf. Actually, AIO should help databases alot. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message