Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:12:36 -0400 From: Aaron Peterson <dopplecoder@gmail.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: threading - good, bad, ugly? Message-ID: <45d750d20508101912402e2311@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050811020408.GA54862@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <45d750d20508101822746c51e3@mail.gmail.com> <20050811020408.GA54862@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On 8/10/05, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:22:10PM -0400, Aaron Peterson wrote: > > It used to be that lots of people told me threaded applications didn't > > run efficiently on FreeBSD because the native threading libraries were > > not very efficient. I remember some work being done on them for the > > 5.x series though, and am wondering if this is still any issue to be > > concerned about at all? MySQL performance was the thing people harped > > on the most IIRC... Anyway, I was just curious about the status of > > this. Perhaps there was never any issue and it was all talk. I > > wouldn't know :-) >=20 > Most of this discussion is only applicable to 4.x and older and does > not consider the fundamentally different thread library in 5.x, which > was rewritten to avoid the problems of the older version. >=20 > Kris Sounds like I shouldn't have any problems then since I'm all upgraded to 5.3 and 5.4 for the servers I manage. Do you know of any performance comparisons for MySQL performance between FreeBSD 5.x and other operating systems one might run MySQL on? Aaron
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