I wish someone had told me this when I sent my $3000 for login support. If
you guy's only don't really have the resources or want to support BSDi it
would have been nice to know that up front, before we had a problem. I
hope that the BSDi folks consider this before including MySQL on their next
release. If I switch to FreeBSD your saying I will not have this problem?
I'll get the software, shipped overnite. I can also have Linux up right
away, but I lose support for files larger than 2gig. It's unfortunate,
maybe I will have to call the sloaris people, and go Solaris/Oracle. I was
trying to avoid that. I have not been entirely pleased with the stability
of Linux. Buy I'll go ahead and order FreeBSD if that's what you guy's will
support I just wish I knew that up front. It would have saved all of us
alot of time. The BSDi folks will support FreeBSD. I will call them about
changing over to that. But I will be REALLY pissed if I still have the same
problem on FreeBSD after reloading my servers.
----- Original Message -----
From: <sasha@stripped>
To: "Ken Menzel" <kenm@stripped>
Cc: <sinisa@stripped>; <jani@stripped>; <mysql-support@stripped>
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: Slow query stops login
>
> > So, FreeBSD may work and BSDi may not? I will have to submit that to
BSDi
> > developement to see what they say about that. Since it's the mostly the
> > same group
> > of people now. I understand that MySQL 3.23.20 is even on the BSDi 4.2
beta
> > release so I am sure they will wnat to hear that!
>
> The problem with BSDi is that although it may come from the same code
base, just
> a couple of lines of difference in some critical library or kernel code
could
> make MySQL not work properly on it. We have more confidence in FreeBSD
just
> because there are a lot of users who run MySQL on it without problems. In
the
> mean time, things are not that clear with BSDi, as the user base is much
> smaller, we do not have developers who have BSDi on their machines, and we
have
> not run very many tests ourselves on this platform, so in a way, it is
> semi-supported - MySQL may compile, but we offer no guarantees on what
will
> happen when you actually run it - if it works for you, you are lucky, if
not, we
> would like to know why, do some troubleshooting and fix the problem if
possible,
> but it could take a while. So like I said, if you have a lot of time, and
your
> goal is to get MySQL to run well on BSDi, it would be worthwhile to spend
all
> this time researching the problem. Otherwise, if your goal is just to have
a
> database server that runs MySQL, you are better off with Linux or FreeBSD
at
> this point, not because those operating systems are better in performance
or
> stability of themselves, but just because we know that MySQL is stable on
them.
>
> --
> Sasha Pachev
>
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