About FreeBSD and Solaris

[Phil Brennan]

On Mar 30, 2005 8:58 PM, Andrew P. <infofarmer at mail.ru> wrote:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > Phil Brennan <phil.brennan at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >>This mysql benchmark includes solaris 10 and freebsd 5.3. Its a month
> >>or two old now, but its the only one I've seen. Dag-Erling, how does
> >>this show solaris to be slow on x86? It certainly isn't slow compared
> >>to freebsd.
> >
> >
> > Please use something else than MySQL as benchmark, as MySQL has
> > well-known issues with FreeBSD's threading model.
> >
> > DES
> 
> Latest talk on the Net suggests that freebsd is a
> perfect choice for mysql-based database, but you
> should compile it (mysql) with linux threads enabled.
> 
> I think Yahoo has used mysql on freebsd for years
> on end. They have switched their core db units to
> linux-oracle, though.
> 
> Andrew P.
> 
Could you provide urls for this latest talk? 
>From the testing in that benchmark that I posted, kse threading seems
to be as good as linuxthreads, but not enough to catch linux or
solaris.