From owner-freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 23 20:23:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D09F516A4CE for ; Sun, 23 May 2004 20:23:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ojoink.com (center.ojoink.com [216.65.123.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A155043D1F for ; Sun, 23 May 2004 20:23:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from amd64list@jpgsworld.com) Received: (qmail 72812 invoked by uid 89); 24 May 2004 03:27:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO MAINBX.jpgsworld.com) (amd64list@jpgsworld.com@24.10.96.33) by center.ojoink.com with SMTP; 24 May 2004 03:27:44 -0000 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20040523201120.0158a100@mail.ojoink.com> X-Sender: amd64list@jpgsworld.com@mail.ojoink.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 20:23:12 -0700 To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org From: JG In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20040523200223.01583468@mail.ojoink.com> References: <20040524001819.GA2713@voi.aagh.net> <5.2.0.9.2.20040523103738.01563ed0@mail.ojoink.com> <5.2.0.9.2.20040522052606.0156fd70@mail.ojoink.com> <5.2.0.9.2.20040521154458.01627688@127.0.0.1> <5.2.0.9.2.20040521154458.01627688@127.0.0.1> <5.2.0.9.2.20040522052606.0156fd70@mail.ojoink.com> <5.2.0.9.2.20040523103738.01563ed0@mail.ojoink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: Why is MySQL nearly twice as fast on Linux? X-BeenThere: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Threading on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 03:23:33 -0000 I'm just getting frustrated here... Is this a threads problem? Is this a kernel problem? Is this a MySQL problem? Or some combination of all three... or more. Does anyone even know what the problem is? Or care to find out? Because if you don't, then the answer is simple: - for standalone MySQL servers run your favorite flavor of Linux, because it seems that any of them, with out of the box OS & MySQL install will slam FreeBSD performance wise. I understand that FreeBSD's big thing is pushing stability vs performance as Peter said... but is that to say that there is no stability, or an unacceptable amount of stability with Linux? Because I'm sure many of the Fortune 500 companies that have opt'd for Linux would disagree. And there is a point where a certain amount of loss of performance for increased stability just isn't acceptable anyway. I love using FreeBSD, but this performance issue is really starting to frustrate me. I still need to put a page together with all the benchmark results. I'll try to do that tomorrow.