FreeBSD mysql and threading

[Scott Long]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 10:44:15AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> > The good news is that default option of using KSE (i.e.
> > libpthread) system scope threads performs about as well as
> > Linuxthreads, on an SMP system.
>
> On a single processor 5.x system, is it still advised to use
> linuxthreads with the MySQL 4.1.x port?
>

KSE and linuxthreads perform nearly the same, and both are definitely
prefered to the old libc_r library that was standard in 5.2 and prior.
There are still some reports of bugs in KSE in edge cases so you'll likely
want to do your own in-house testing before deploying your database.

Scott