threading - good, bad, ugly?

[Dmitry Mityugov]

On 8/11/05, Aaron Peterson <dopplecoder at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

This article http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/27/1243207
compares performance of mySQL on OpenBSD 3.6, NetBSD 2.0, FreeBSD 5.3
and 4.10, Solaris Express (build 69) and Linux 2.4 and 2.6.

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