mysql - linuxthreads
Chris
chrcoluk at gmail.com
Sat Jan 28 05:03:33 PST 2006
On 27/01/06, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 03:15:05PM -0500, Romeo Theriault wrote:
> > A week or so ago I wrote to the this list asking about Freebsd and
> > Mysql, wondering if you still needed to compile Mysql with
> > linuxthreads to get better performance under Freebsd 6. I didn't get
> > much of a response so I looked around for the answer. I thought I'd
> > write back to the mailing list to tell anyone interested what I found.
>
> Thanks, this is always useful!
>
> > In the Freebsd 6.0 is seems that to get the best MySQL performance
> > you need to do a few things.
> > #compile your kernel with the ULE scheduler
>
> I'd be inclined to doubt this..all my measurements show ULE is slower
> than 4BSD except at negligible load. How did you measure it?
>
> > #use the TSC timecounter
> > #use the libthr threading library with mysql
>
> You definitely want libthr.
>
> Kris
>
>
>
is there large differences between libthr on 6.x and 5.x, I mean is libthr
the best option for 5.x also?
Chris
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