UNIX domain sockets MFC's

[Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri]

On 5/12/07, Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 11 May 2007, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
>
> >> The speed improvements associated with these MFC's is minor; primarily they
> >> are stability improvements under high load.  There are major performance
> >> improvements in the 7.x implementation, especially for multi-core systems,
> >> but I have no current plans to MFC them, as they interact with other system
> >> components and may depend on other changes that also haven't been MFC'd.
> >
> > Thanks for clearing this up.
> >
> > How safe is using 7.0 for MySQL server now?
>
> As Mark has mentioned, you don't want to use -CURRENT for anything
> production-oriented.  While 7-CURRENT has been a remarkably unbumpy ride,
> especially given the scope of the changes made (ZFS, SMP scalability, etc), I
> wouldn't run any production services on it until it becomes 7-STABLE later
> this year.
>
> However, if you have a high volume workload that you want to work really well
> with 7.x, and you can do testing, now would be a really good time to start
> doing that.  Almost all major feature changes are now present in the 7-CURRENT
> branch, so the next four months are all about getting it into shape for the
> 7.0 release.  Even if it panics on the first day you run a test workload
> against it, submit a bug report and keep with it until it runs perfectly.
> :-)  The way development branches become stable branches is that people who
> care about making it happen test the new release until they're happy with it,
> reporting bugs, fixing bugs, etc, so any help you can provide would be greatly
> appreciated!
>
> Robert N M Watson
> Computer Laboratory
> University of Cambridge
>

I'm csuping to HEAD now :)
What options shall I remove to avoid the slowness and to gain the  SMP
performance of it? while I could debug if something got crashed

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Regards,

-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
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