In the last episode (Sep 15), Ian Smith said:
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > I would guess that maybe xmms (or some other threaded app) is your
> > hidden CPU consumer. The kernel does not calculate %CPU correctly
> > for libkse-threaded programs, and they usually show up as 0% all
> > the time. The TIME column does update correctly, though. If you
> > switch to libthr with libmap.conf, you'll get accurate threaded
> > %CPU reporting.
>
> I assume then that libkse is what the three multi-thread programs I'm
> running (xmms, mozilla-bin and mysqld) are now using, where for each
> of them `ldd $program | grep thr` shows
> libpthread.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1
>
> So can/should I set in (a new) /etc/libmap.conf generally:
> libpthread.so.1 libthr.so.1
> libpthread.so libthr.so
>
> or would it be better to just target these specific programs, eg:
>
> [/usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin/] # assuming loaded with full path?
> libpthread.so.1 libthr.so.1
> libpthread.so libthr.so
>
> Are there any likely downsides to using libthr instead? Esp. mysqld?
Ya, libkse was the name of the default thread library before it was
renamed to "libpthread". I use a global map (like in your first
example) myself. I have a lightly-used mysql database on my machine
and haven't noticed any problems with it or any other threaded apps.
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Dan Nelson
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