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Re: 2.4.14 prerelease call for testing #2
"Brett @Google" <brett.maxfield@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Dieter Kluenter <dieter@dkluenter.de> wrote:
>>
>> Brett Maxfield <brett.maxfield@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Doesnt "currently asm" indicate asm spinlocks.. Which can be unreliable. These can be even more unreliable with unpatched bdb?
>> >
>> > So perhaps you should try posix style semaphores.. Forcing posix/pthreads both at compile time and at run time..
>>
>> db-4.7.25 has been build with --enable-posixmutexes
>> --enable-pthread_api
>
> I use ../dist/configure --disable-java --enable-posixmutexes
> --with-mutex=POSIX/pthreads --enable-largefile --enable-cxx
>
> --with-mutex=POSIX/pthreads is important as it selects posix mutex at
> runtime, not compile time.
I don't think that this configure option is necessary on linux, as
libpthread is the default AFAIK.
from configure --help:
--with-mutex=MUTEX Select non-default mutex implementation.
-Dieter
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