From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 24 5:32:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.iol.ie (mail1.mail.iol.ie [194.125.2.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B912A151EB for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 05:32:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nick@iol.ie) Received: from beckett.earlsfort.iol.ie (beckett.earlsfort.iol.ie [194.125.21.2]) by mail.iol.ie Sendmail (v8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA64779 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 13:31:41 GMT Received: (from nick@localhost) by beckett.earlsfort.iol.ie Sendmail (v8.9.3) id NAA05935 for current@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 13:31:44 GMT From: Nick Hilliard Message-Id: <199911241331.NAA05935@beckett.earlsfort.iol.ie> Subject: Re: Threads and my new job. To: current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 13:31:44 +0000 (GMT) X-NCC-RegID: ie.iol X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] 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 > Why do we need to smite the Linux database servers? With threads in their > current state they already outperform Linux's native threads by ~50x for > things like sending mail. I would assume that the differences in database > performance is similar. The threads (& the old nfs issues which have now thankfully been fixed) in their current state led bCandid to write about the Cyclone news router: : Issues the w/FreeBSD kernel and buggy threads have required our development : team to wait until improvements to the OS can be made. We did have a beta : posted on our website for a while but have since removed it. disclaimer: I am not a thread hacker. Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message