Possible Threading problem with -CURRENT / MySQL?
Jon Noack
noackjr at alumni.rice.edu
Fri Jun 18 18:49:25 GMT 2004
On 06/17/04 01:07, Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 1:31 AM -0400 2004-06-17, Robert Watson wrote:
>> - Removing Giant from UNIX domain sockets
>
> Out of curiosity, is this something that could be relatively safely
> done in general? Any ideas on what the plan is for doing this as the
> default on -CURRENT?
Wasn't this already done? See this commit:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2004-June/025082.html
>> - Disabling HTT - Using ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES
>
> These both sound like typical improvements, based on what I've seen
> on this list. Any ideas on when they might become the default?
ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES was already enabled by default on amd64. See this
commit (read thread for discussion):
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2004-June/025234.html
It appears no comprehensive testing has been done to check whether it
really does improve performance. Many signs do point that way, though.
>> - Running with SCHED_4BSD instead of SCHED_ULE
>
> This is the only one that really concerns me. This shows that we
> clearly need more work on ULE. Is there one particular thing that we
> seem to be tripping up on, or is it a multitude of things?
I think I'll switch to 4BSD until I see more work being done on ULE (I
read cvs-src as a hobby already so I'll know when to switch back). I
noticed a performance drop from 5.2.1-p8 (with 4BSD) to -CURRENT (with
ULE) when I upgraded, but I attributed it to other things. However, the
system still feels slower than before despite having since disabled
INVARIANTS, WITNESS, and userspace malloc debugging flags.
Jon Noack
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