From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 12 12:33:55 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BDB116A400 for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 12:33:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.249]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2904013C48A for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 12:33:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d23so291163and for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 05:33:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=aD3NspHr80vLoB04uHfTDnUQwWGD3xHPeLTt6xSEa73I8vQ5K/TvcCALxwwZ01mFND4qxcxLf9+Gd3b/JZ6wZr2pnzr9Auqi4VPZpirmlhpeIUOacZjWSadvfRYCg/UFdFSB8N84Fa2gL+gLH/Y8/M0ZVdfUfddpaIPyPnI6vuc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=M8JSOSB3TE5Gvz4vFPtNh1w6JqkXssoPT9FqIXXWFuXUFD1n1EIjgrT8gp3QLbC31xbLQYWx8LLDIWXoJ2BM42pjKoJbeiYs0xYjB0QQ6JP1kpJFH8bnmJUTqRhf8XNMIW8BMhVCq4DAUGeLTdTR4cNfp+Ih+OMCAwmVQkH7ccM= Received: by 10.100.240.19 with SMTP id n19mr2984174anh.1178973233878; Sat, 12 May 2007 05:33:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.9.14 with HTTP; Sat, 12 May 2007 05:33:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <499c70c0705120533g767ba39dg5495a0c7456036f1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 15:33:53 +0300 From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" To: "Robert Watson" In-Reply-To: <20070512110657.O24765@fledge.watson.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070508132149.A24765@fledge.watson.org> <20070511124830.N24765@fledge.watson.org> <499c70c0705111213tddabb55g696bf5dc0fc92f70@mail.gmail.com> <20070511204540.M24765@fledge.watson.org> <499c70c0705111326gac4e215i709e7cbc3d0d9888@mail.gmail.com> <20070512110657.O24765@fledge.watson.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UNIX domain sockets MFC's X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 12:33:55 -0000 On 5/12/07, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Fri, 11 May 2007, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > > >> The speed improvements associated with these MFC's is minor; primarily they > >> are stability improvements under high load. There are major performance > >> improvements in the 7.x implementation, especially for multi-core systems, > >> but I have no current plans to MFC them, as they interact with other system > >> components and may depend on other changes that also haven't been MFC'd. > > > > Thanks for clearing this up. > > > > How safe is using 7.0 for MySQL server now? > > As Mark has mentioned, you don't want to use -CURRENT for anything > production-oriented. While 7-CURRENT has been a remarkably unbumpy ride, > especially given the scope of the changes made (ZFS, SMP scalability, etc), I > wouldn't run any production services on it until it becomes 7-STABLE later > this year. > > However, if you have a high volume workload that you want to work really well > with 7.x, and you can do testing, now would be a really good time to start > doing that. Almost all major feature changes are now present in the 7-CURRENT > branch, so the next four months are all about getting it into shape for the > 7.0 release. Even if it panics on the first day you run a test workload > against it, submit a bug report and keep with it until it runs perfectly. > :-) The way development branches become stable branches is that people who > care about making it happen test the new release until they're happy with it, > reporting bugs, fixing bugs, etc, so any help you can provide would be greatly > appreciated! > > Robert N M Watson > Computer Laboratory > University of Cambridge > I'm csuping to HEAD now :) What options shall I remove to avoid the slowness and to gain the SMP performance of it? while I could debug if something got crashed -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/