Subject: Re: MySQL fully supporting NetBSD (was: PostgreSQL)
To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@NetBSD.org>
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
List: tech-misc
Date: 02/02/2006 16:18:48
* Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@NetBSD.org> [060202 16:10] wrote:
> On Thursday, 2 February 2006 at 10:12:04 +0100, Martin S. Weber wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
>
> > The capability of the kernel and the thread library to take advantage
> > of symmetric multi-processor (SMP) systems. In other words, when a
> > process creates a thread, it should be possible for that thread to run
> > on a different CPU than the original process.
> >
> > Bad news. Outright broken.
>
> This applies to FreeBSD too AFAIK. But it's fully supported. Don't
> let it worry you too much.
You've been away for a while. Currently FreeBSD supports kernel
threads via native kernel threads as well as linux-threads. FreeBSD
has supported mysql+kernelthreads (linuxthreads) for several years
now.
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- Alfred Perlstein