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From:Matthew Palmer Date:March 3 2005 5:34am
Subject:Re: Performance on Solaris Vs Linux
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On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:52:31AM +0500, Faisal Feroz wrote:
> On solaris malloc calls block all threads and create heap contention. 
> Indeed, Sun actually dis-courages the use of malloc. This would explain 

(Stupid solaris-newbie question:) What do Sun recommend instead?

> Question #2) If it does indeed run faster, is there a way or a ported 
> binary of mysql that runs equally fast on Solaris. Reason being I have 
> two big Sun E3500 lying around that I would like to put to good use ..

SparcLinux would seem like a reasonable bet.

- Matt

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