Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:01:59PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> > Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I'm trying to keep the thing stable (I knew I couldn't run away from
> > > sysadmin for long...), and the board hits MySQL to the extent that all
> > > those bugs actually get to manifest themselves...
> > Are you on MySQL 3.23? On BDB?
> > If you're doing high-update frequency stuff on anything less you get
> > what you deserve and have no right to whinge.
>
> 3.23 Yes, BDB no.
>
> Actually some of the bugs were crashes in the threading under FreeBSD 4.
> :-(. The bug would manifest itself as a crash in the return() call of
> mysql_select() :-(
>
> MBM (may well try BDB and see if it makes any difference...)
If it's threading that's the issue, then unlikely.
FreeBSD? Ooooh. Is there a tarball release for that? Do you build it
yourself?
Certainly under linux, they statically link to a patched libpthreads.
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Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org
Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com
Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy
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