At 02:37 PM 6/28/99 , Suresh Rajagopalan wrote:
>Based on the benchmark suite provided with the distribution,
>MySQL on Linux is about 4x-5x faster on the same hardware than FreeBSD.
>My comparison was between the 2.2.10 kernel vs 3.1 FreeBSD.
>
>I'm not sure why though. Perhaps certain C function calls are more
>expensive in FreeBSD?
i use FreeBSD extensively at gamespot and we are running mysql on it. it
performs quite well, although i don't have any comparisons against other OS's.
did you build the FreeBSD version with mit-pthreads or FreeBSD's libc_r
threads?
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