From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 09:45:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D2DD16A4BF; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:45:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from perrin.nxad.com (internal.ext.nxad.com [69.1.70.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89F9443FF7; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:45:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sean@nxad.com) Received: by perrin.nxad.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 003CF21058; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:45:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:45:53 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20030827164553.GC51167@perrin.nxad.com> References: <3F4CD6C8.7010103@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F4CD6C8.7010103@freebsd.org> X-PGP-Key: finger seanc@FreeBSD.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3849 3760 1AFE 7B17 11A0 83A6 DD99 E31F BC84 B341 X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:33:48 -0700 cc: threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for thread testers X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:45:57 -0000 [moving to -threads] > This is kind of an unconventional call for help. As we approach the > release of 5.2, we'd really like to show off the performance and > stability of our new threading packages. So, I'm looking for people > to volunteer to go out and put some of the thread-capable enterprise > and desktop packages to the test. Packages that I would most like > to see are: > > Apache 2 > BIND 9 > OpenOffice > Mozilla > KDE desktop + Konq > Java 1.3/1.4 + Tomcat/etc > MySQL > Others? > > The questions that I would like to have answered are: > > Does it take advantage of pthreads > Does it work with libkse and libthr > Does it operate correctly > Does it perform better/worse than with libc_r > Does it perform better/worse than under FreeBSD 4.x What's the current status of KSE? Is the project page (http://www.FreeBSD.org/kse/) considered up to date by the KSE developers? Are the remaining bits for KSE either bug related or dealing with ARCH != x86? Are there any remaining/outstanding "gotchas"/bugs on the radar/problems that the KSE developers are aware of? I've heard that the konsole bug has been fixed and there's a patch floating around to fix the SIGABRTs for that program (was my biggest gripe last time I tested libkse). Just trying to figure out what my expectations should be with regards to testing at this point. Is KSE to the point that it's ready for performance testing or is stability still a concern? tia, -sc -- Sean Chittenden