MySQL 5.0 on FreeBSD 7

[Matt Juszczak]

Hi all,

About a year ago, I setup MySQL 5.0.45 on a FreeBSD 6.x box (64 bit).  I 
read at the time that the use of pthreads with FreeBSD would significantly 
improve performance, but as I was running the 64 bit version of FreeBSD, I 
could not use them.

Fast forward to today - a different setup and new opportunity has allowed 
me to research this combination again.  This time, some reading I have 
done on the use of FreeBSD 7 with MySQL has shown significant performance 
increases, but none of them really mention in detail how MySQL was setup.

I decided to install a 64 bit version of FreeBSD 7.x (to address the 8 GB 
RAM in the box) and attempt to build with pthreads enabled, as well as a 
static build and optimized compiler options.  Once again, got the 
error/warning in ports that the linux pthreads only works with the i386 32 
bit setup.

So I'm wondering if anyone here has successfully seen a MySQL 5.x 
performance boost with FreeBSD 7 compared to that of FreeBSD 6 on a 64 bit 
architecture, and if so, what they did to enable that boost.

Thanks!

-Matt