Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sun Feb 25 23:55:54 UTC 2007


On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:27:01AM +0100, Martin Blapp wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> >If you can package up some kind of test or analogous workload that I
> >can run, I'd be happy to take a look at profiling it on MP hardware.
> >
> 
> Should be possible. Btw. Has setting kern.threads.virtual_cpu to a different
> value effect for running programms or just started ones ?

Dunno what that does, sorry.

> >P.S. I assume you've done all the usual things like using libthr
> >instead of libpthread.
> 
> Yes, all clamd installations we have run with libthr, since libptread is
> completly unusable and libc_r has small hangs from time to time. The
> question is just if this is a clamd problem or an threading library
> problem.

OK

Kris
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