Re: mysqld without LinuxThreads

2004-01-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks a lot for your kind and amusing explanation! I will have a look at MySQL thread layer AND of course wait for kernel 2.6.. Chris Nolan wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 21:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Bakun wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 10:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: mysqld without LinuxThreads

2004-01-09 Thread Andy Bakun
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 05:24, Chris Nolan wrote: 3. Wait for a while. Linux 2.6 includes (as does the RedHat 9.0 and ES/WS/AS 3.0 kernels) NPTL - the Native POSIX Threads for Linux implementation which is superior in many ways and does not use clone() at all. As you'll no longer want to use

Re: mysqld without LinuxThreads

2004-01-09 Thread Chris Nolan
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 20:58, Andy Bakun wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 05:24, Chris Nolan wrote: 3. Wait for a while. Linux 2.6 includes (as does the RedHat 9.0 and ES/WS/AS 3.0 kernels) NPTL - the Native POSIX Threads for Linux implementation which is superior in many ways and does not use

Re: mysqld without LinuxThreads

2004-01-09 Thread Andy Bakun
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 05:14, Chris Nolan wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 20:58, Andy Bakun wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 05:24, Chris Nolan wrote: 3. Wait for a while. Linux 2.6 includes (as does the RedHat 9.0 and ES/WS/AS 3.0 kernels) NPTL - the Native POSIX Threads for Linux

Re: mysqld without LinuxThreads

2004-01-08 Thread Chris Nolan
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 21:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Bakun wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 10:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, does anyone know if it's possible to compile MySQL under Linux so that mysqld doesn't rely upon LinuxThreads, but makes direct call to fork() or

mysqld without LinuxThreads

2004-01-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, does anyone know if it's possible to compile MySQL under Linux so that mysqld doesn't rely upon LinuxThreads, but makes direct call to fork() or clone() system calls instead? I'm looking for a way to avoid the exploitation of pthreads under Linux. Is this feature provided by MySQL? Many

Re: mysqld without LinuxThreads

2004-01-07 Thread Andy Bakun
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 10:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, does anyone know if it's possible to compile MySQL under Linux so that mysqld doesn't rely upon LinuxThreads, but makes direct call to fork() or clone() system calls instead? As far as I know and can tell from reading docs, Linux's