From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 23 16:16:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from luna.lyris.net (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6897A14E61 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 16:16:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kip@lyris.com) Received: from luna.shelby.com by luna.lyris.net (8.9.1b+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id QAA21298; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 16:16:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by luna.shelby.com with SMTP (MailShield v1.50); Tue, 23 Nov 1999 16:16:17 -0800 Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 16:16:17 -0800 (PST) From: Kip Macy X-Sender: kip@luna To: Doug White Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Threads and my new job. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SMTP-HELO: luna X-SMTP-MAIL-FROM: kip@lyris.com X-SMTP-RCPT-TO: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu,current@FreeBSD.ORG X-SMTP-PEER-INFO: luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6] Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Jason, you are my savior. Go forth and do much to create Truly Kick Ass > Threading. Give me my tools to smite these Linux database servers once > and for all! :-) 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. -Kip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message