Am Samstag, 11. Juni 2005 10:00 schrieb Robert Watson: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Steve Roome wrote: [...] > - Thread package. In 5.x, you get process scope threads by default, but > it turns out MySQL is tuned for system scope threads, and this is > particularly visible in the supersmack benchmark, which competes many > client processes against a few server threads. I'm not sure what the > condition is of libthr on 5.x, but you could give it a spin. In 6.x, > libthr has been largely rewritten and is a great deal faster. I > think there's a compile-time option to make libpthread use system scope > threads but the details ellude me. The Linuxthreads library may well > provide a substantial improvement -- not as good for MySQL as the 6.x > libthr, but perhaps much more appropriate than libpthread.
OT, but can someone please gvie me a link which describes the pthread and lib_thr stuff. And how would I tell a port to compile with a specific threading library (if my understanding is correct)? Maybe one can name typical applications for specific threading libraries? Thanks a lot, -Harry
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