Re: MySQL

[Peter Petrakis <ppetrakis firestorm tzo org>]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Rich Payne wrote:
 
> Just FYI, last I knew there were some problems with MySQL on Alpha under
> high load that I believe are thread related (Peter, anything you want to
> add to this?).

It's a bug in gcc that produces un-threadsafe code. You can get around it
by compiling it with no optimizations (sometimes) or by using ccc. I have
a static version of the latest mysql. It'll be on the ftp site shortly.
I'll make a shared version soon.

Peter 

> --rdp
> 
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Matt Spong wrote:
> 
> > > How long did you wait? This file can take a long time to compile,
> > > especially if you don't have a lot of memory. When I compiled it on my SX
> > > it sat at that line for a long time, I thought the same as you that it had
> > > died. However I left it overnight, and when I checked on it the
> > > next morning the compile had succeeded.
> > 
> > thanks for the reply, but I just got it working - I turned off
> > optimization for that particular file and it worked.  I just installed it,
> > and now it's working fine (yay!)  I wonder why the RPMs didn't work
> > though?
> > 
> > BTW I left it compiling earlier for half an hour on that particular file,
> > and it didn't go anywhere, and I have 512mb of RAM and a 600mhz processor,
> > so it definately should not have taken that long.
> > 
> > Matt
> > 
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