On Friday 20 March 2009 10:46:20 Matt Juszczak wrote:
> > You're confusing linux-threads with pthreads. The performance boosts
> > mentioned are done using the FreeBSD Posix threads ("pthreads") library,
> > in FreeBSD 7.x they are implemented using libthr(3).
> > The benchmarks also assume you are using SCHED_ULE, rather then
> > SCHED_4BSD. Nothing should be configured if you run GENERIC later then
> > 7.0-RELEASE.
>
> Mel,
>
> So, from a standard FreeBSD 7.x install:
>
> - Recompile kernel to use SCHED_ULE7.1 and 7-STABLE later then feb 2008 all have SCHED_ULE as default. Only 7.0-RELEASE has SCHED_4BSD as default. > - In the port, use: BUILD_OPTIMIZED=yes > - In the port, use: WITH_PROC_SCOPE_PTH=yes > - In the port, use: BUILD_STATIC=yes Yes. If you don't mind loosing the ability to kill off sleeping connections, you can add WITHOUT_THR_ALARM. > And that should be it? So the "libpthread" they discuss in the > description for WITH_PROC_SCOPE_PTH is different than the linux pthreads? Yes. Linux threads is a port of the linux threading library (devel/linuxthreads). -- Mel _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
