From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 13 6:59:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from biliskner.great4.co.uk (biliskner.great4.co.uk [213.86.13.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E303D37B405 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 06:59:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from ANDREWT (andrewt.topaz [172.22.1.76]) by biliskner.great4.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E87B540B; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:00:32 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <031b01c183e6$c7c70430$4c0116ac@ANDREWT> From: "Andrew Tulloch" To: "Max Khon" Cc: References: <077a01c18332$3ffd4190$4c0116ac@ANDREWT> <3C17FA33.3070906@viasoft.com.cn> <20011213204120.A34101@iclub.nsu.ru> Subject: Re: SMP and MySQL/threads Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:59:35 -0000 Organization: Great4 Ltd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That was essentially the answer I was looking for, I couldn't think of a particular reason linuxthreads wouldn't work well on FreeBSD, but the port seems to indicate you should expect problems with linuxthreads which put me (and possibly others?) off from using MySQL+linuxthreads on FreeBSD i386/SMP. From the replies to my question it seems to indicate people are running this combination with no problems. Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Khon" To: "David Xu" Cc: "Andrew Tulloch" ; Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 2:41 PM Subject: Re: SMP and MySQL/threads > hi, there! > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 08:45:39AM +0800, David Xu wrote: > > > If you need performance, keep it with Linux until FreeBSD 5.0 is ready. > > current pthread implement in FreeBSD 4 is user level thread, and all > > disk access will > > be serialized and whole threads can only run in one processor. > > He needs also to reduce maintainance cost. It has been said in this thread > that mysql + linuxthreads work fine on FreeBSD. > > /fjoe > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message