threading - good, bad, ugly?

[Aaron Peterson]

On 8/10/05, Kris Kennaway <kris at 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 :-)
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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