Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:29:42 -0700 From: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for thread testers Message-ID: <20030827172942.GB695@roark.gnf.org> In-Reply-To: <3F4CD6C8.7010103@freebsd.org> References: <3F4CD6C8.7010103@freebsd.org>
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--f2QGlHpHGjS2mn6Y Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:05:28AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > All, >=20 > 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: >=20 > Apache 2 > BIND 9 > OpenOffice > Mozilla > KDE desktop + Konq > Java 1.3/1.4 + Tomcat/etc > MySQL > Others? I've found that privoxy is a good program to test threads. It does alot of network io too. ports/www/privoxy. Just point your web browser to use it. > The questions that I would like to have answered are: >=20 > Does it take advantage of pthreads Yes. > Does it work with libkse and libthr Sort of. > Does it operate correctly libthr: tends to segfault (sig11). Occasional DNS resolution issues. libkse: tends to segfault (sig11), I've gotten my box to crash once too (BAD!). ^C still doesn't kill the process.=20 Occasional DNS resolution issues. Here's the output from the console: Aug 27 10:22:41 Privoxy(134991872) Request: images.slashdot.org/greendot.gif Aug 27 10:22:41 Privoxy(134979584) Request: images.slashdot.org/pix.gif Aug 27 10:22:46 Privoxy(135041024) Error: could not resolve hostname images= .slashdot.org ^^^^--- This is bad, I have no problems resolving this normally. ^CAug 27 10:22:56 Privoxy(135163904) Info: exiting by signal 2 .. bye ^CAug 27 10:23:35 Privoxy(135151616) Info: exiting by signal 2 .. bye ^CAug 27 10:23:35 Privoxy(135110656) Info: exiting by signal 2 .. bye ^CAug 27 10:23:36 Privoxy(135065600) Info: exiting by signal 2 .. bye ^CAug 27 10:23:36 Privoxy(135053312) Info: exiting by signal 2 .. bye ^CAug 27 10:23:36 Privoxy(134742016) Info: exiting by signal 2 .. bye ^^^--- I guess I killed the individual threads. ^C^C^C ^C^C^C ^C^C^C ^^^--- Nothing left to kill? load: 0.35 cmd: privoxy 1257 [KSE] 0.06u 0.09s 0% 3424k ^^^--- I hit ^T here. > Does it perform better/worse than with libc_r When it worked, it worked better under thr and kse. > Does it perform better/worse than under FreeBSD 4.x ENOTTESTED In short, we aren't there yet. -gordon --f2QGlHpHGjS2mn6Y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/TOqGRu2t9DV9ZfsRAppGAJ4rpo4iWBryw0E7dfjDRTSt0gr9pACdGNxS Ayb41WZYcacM/8vdq4Aiit4= =WiXI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --f2QGlHpHGjS2mn6Y--
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