Re: AMD64 debian Arch and NPTL

[Jo Shields <jo.shields@comlab.ox.ac.uk>]

phillist@free.fr wrote:

> Hello
>
> I have a box with :
>
> - AMD64 debian Arch
> - Kernel 2.6.8
>
> installed from
>
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/ stable main contrib
> non-free
> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
>
>
> - i want to use NPTL for optimize apache
> and bypass the 256 process limitation.
>
> a  getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION give me :
> NPTL 0.60
>
> so my kernel version is ok (isn't it ?)
>
> But the next step, take an extend libc6 seems a pain  :
> an apt-cache search libc6-i686 give me nothing.
>
> There is a NPTL port in Debian AMD64 Arch ?
>
> Thanks for your help .
>  

libc6-i686 is not an NPTL port of libc - it is an SSE-optimised version (i.e. faster on 686-class computers). Regular Sarge libc includes NPTL, as per:


jms@lic1:~$ /lib/libc.so.6 | grep NPTL
       NPTL 0.60 by Ulrich Drepper