Thanks Jon and all others for your great suggestions. As Jon said, I'm drawing towards the conclusion that the issue was with some bug or incompatibility between FreeBSD 7 and MySql 5.1. FreeBSD 7 has a new scheduler but by default it still uses the older one. Things seemed to be much better after we recompiled the kernel with the new scheduler.
>Also - My custom kernel config has to following non-standard options >options HZ=2000 >options SCHED_ULE # ULE scheduler >options PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thread preemption >options FULL_PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thread preemption >options IPI_PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thread preemption >options SMP Khanh _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
