What is NPTL? Where can I find information about it?

Daniel Rail wrote:

>Hi,
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>At October 14, 2004, 14:12, Pablo Le�n wrote:
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>>I have a dual Xeon machine running fb super server 1.5.1 on smp linux
>>2.4.6. This machine is serving an intensive client/server database
>>application.
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>>When I do a 'top' command, I get a process fbserver with 99.9% cpu
>>usage. However, all four cpu's show about 70% of idle states.
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>I'd guess that this is as expected. Firebird uses it's own thread
>scheduler. Although, I don't know about the NPTL build. If your
>linux kernel supports NPTL, you might want to try the NPTL build.
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>>How can I increase my server performance? How can I push fbserver to use
>>more cpu power? Should I disable Hyperthreading? Any kernel compilation
>>parameter recommendation?
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>Other than trying the NPTL build, if you can, I recommend using
>Classic Server, instead of Superserver.
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