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Date:      Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:02:16 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        tcobb@staff.circle.net
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: SMP and libc_r
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990222140216.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <A0CFA284C004D211B7EE0060082F32A412E275@freya.circle.net>

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On 22-Feb-99 tcobb@staff.circle.net wrote:
> >   Not yet anyway :)
>  That's what I was afraid of.  This awaits kernel-threads, eh?
Well, kernel threads exist, its just that the thread lib doesn't use them,
AFAIK anyway...
   
> >   works really badly on multiple IO intensive apps (because 
> >   the all wait for the big kernel
> >   lock)
>  I find it strange that it should perform worse than a single
>  CPU kernel on the same tests, though.
Yeah, but I think it depends what else is going on...

>  Correct me if I'm wrong, but, if I throw alot of memory at
>  MySQL and get it to cache the more frequently-accessed
>  tables then I should be able to work around this?
It sounds reasonable to me :)


---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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