8.2 + apache == a LOT of sigprocmask

Marat N.Afanasyev amarat at ksu.ru
Tue Nov 15 08:48:57 UTC 2011


Daniil Cherednik wrote:
> After all that I was trying to compare perfomance of return from fork()
> in Linux and FreeBSD (see
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2011-October/036705.html)
> and fork() in FreeBSD was slower.

our fork() differs from linux fork() in handling parent and child memory 
pages, and ours is generally slower, that's why sphinxsearch (prior to 
1.1 with its prefork model) was unusable on FreeBSD under moderate and 
heavy load, too many forks %)

-- 
SY, Marat



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