Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 08:41:19 -0800 (PST) From: Kip Macy <kip@lyris.com> To: Nick Hilliard <nick@iol.ie> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Threads and my new job. Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.991124083655.27897A-100000@luna> In-Reply-To: <199911241331.NAA05935@beckett.earlsfort.iol.ie>
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I will admit that I have had odd behaviours with threads in developing Lyris on FreeBSD that I have not seen on Solaris, NT, or Linux. I will see things like what appears to be the thread scheduler stop scheduling threads and just do a busy wait. I have not tracked it down any further for lack of time. -Kip On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Nick Hilliard wrote: > > 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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