Re: SMP performance on drgonfly

2007-05-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
A large chunk of the kernel still runs under the big giant lock, including the light weight processes that libthread_xu uses, so something like mysql is going to hit a lot of BGL contention. You may be able to get DragonFly to run on the machines you were having problems

Re: SMP performance on drgonfly

2007-05-18 Thread Gergo Szakal
On Fri, 18 May 2007 16:46:27 -0700 (PDT) Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A large chunk of the kernel still runs under the big giant lock, including the light weight processes that libthread_xu uses, so something like mysql is going to hit a lot of BGL contention.