From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 12 02:58:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D67BD16A41F for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 02:58:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mail2.fluidhosting.com [204.14.90.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5017743D55 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 02:58:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 86004 invoked by uid 399); 12 Dec 2005 02:58:41 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Dec 2005 02:58:41 -0000 Message-ID: <439CE760.9040001@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:58:40 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051203) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Evans Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New libc malloc patch X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 02:58:43 -0000 Jason Evans wrote: > It would be very informative to run benchmarks with real world > multithreaded apps. bind9 (built with threading support) would be a > great candidate, Maybe someday, but not at the moment. I've been told by the folks at ISC that in it's current form, threading is a pessimization on all versions of BIND 9 prior to the 9.4 code that they have in CVS (which has not been generally released). Thus, I would not expect performance of BIND 9 with threads to be an accurate reflection of the effectiveness of the library. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection