On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 20:05 +0100, Lorenzo Allegrucci wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 09:02 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > > That still doesn't fix the potential Linux problem that this > > benchmark identified. > > > > To clarify: I don't care as much about MySQL performance as > > I care about identifying and fixing this potential bug in > > Linux. > > Here http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/mysql.html Kris Kennaway > talks about a patch for FreeBSD 7 which addresses poor scalability > of file descriptor locking and that it's responsible for almost all > of the performance and scaling improvements.
How does Linux scale with many threads contending for file descriptor lock? Has anyone tried to run the test with oprofile? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
