Re: 8 cores of fun

From: Kip Macy <kip.macy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 18:42:36 -0700
On 5/20/07, Walter Vaughan <wvaughan_at_steelerubber.com> wrote:
> I've got a few days to experiment with an 8 core box, and someone pointed this
> page out to me http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/mysql.html before I
> purchased the box.
>
> Looking at the patch http://people.freebsd.org/~jeff/tophalf.diff it doesn't
> appear to be patchable with 7-CURRENT.
>
> What I am interested in is Hi-speed Java (really wanted to work with Java6) and
> Postgresql-8.2.
>
> Does anyone have any pointers for optimizing Posgresql & Java on AMD-64 with 8
> cores?

This is all a WIP. I think changes providing benefit equivalent to
what was in tophalf have all been pushed back into CVS. Finer grained
scheduler locking is on its way. We may ping you to test intermediate
patches.

         -Kip
Received on Sun May 20 2007 - 23:42:37 UTC

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