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Subject: Re: LINUX vs FreeBSD mysql performance using a large RT database
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In response to Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>:
> 
> One strange thing is that FreeBSD thinks the box really has 5G of 
> RAM, which is does not. Its just 4G.... However I am pretty sure 
> thats just a cosmetic bug.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#PAE

Cool information, kind of blows the "FreeBSD's performance sucks"
argument out of the water.  Thanks for taking the time to run the
tests and post!

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Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.