Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 07:55:34 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@mysql.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Do you use MySQL? Message-ID: <44196046.4040000@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20060316101845.GA3776@eucla.lemis.com> References: <20060316101845.GA3776@eucla.lemis.com>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: [ ... ] > - Which version of FreeBSD are you running? 4.11, 5.4, 5-STABLE, 6-STABLE > - Which version of MySQL are you running? Generally: mysql-server-4.1.18_2 Multithreaded SQL database (server) [ using native pthreads ] > - If you're not running MySQL 5.0, why not? For the most part, I just use mysql for testing or for a backend to something like Wordpress; I've still got a production Oracle 8.1.7 database on a 6-disk Sun E250 for a mission-critical in-house system, and I'd generally go with that or with FrontBase or OpenBase on an Xserve for clients. I don't need anything from MySQL 5 that 4 doesn't provide. > - Where do you get your MySQL software from? > > * From the MySQL web site? > * From a FreeBSD CD/DVD distribution? > * Package (precompiled) from the FreeBSD web site (either directly > or via a mirror)? > * From the ports collection? Ports. > - Which threading library are you using? Why? Native pthreads. It's the default choice and works fine for what I do. > - Have you had to change the default installation (different compile > flags, different installation directories, etc.)? Nope. > - Do you have any problems that you think are related to the choice of > the version you're using? No. I doubt I'm running more than a query a second on average for what I'm using mysql for now. -- -Chuck
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