Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 01:01:13 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? Message-ID: <199803030601.BAA00325@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980302205207.8019B-100000@shell.uniserve.com> from Tom at "Mar 2, 98 08:54:46 pm"
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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
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