Re: [AOLSERVER] Good reading: Yahoo moving to PHP

[Jim Davidson]

In a message dated 10/30/02 9:03:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

The article mentions that they stayed away from Java because of the thread
implementation on FreeBSD (presumably 4.x).� Given that AOLserver uses
threads heavily, does anyone have experience running it under FreeBSD?� Is
it OK?� OK under load?

Hi,
I do some of the aolserver development on my FreeBSD laptop but I wouldn't run it there - default threads are user based which perform poorly.  You can get AOLserver to link against a port of Linux threads which emulate system clone() based threads with BSD rfork() which may perform better.
-Jim