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Date:      Tue, 28 Jun 2005 07:59:12 +0200
From:      Martin Nilsson <martin@gneto.com>
To:        Steve Roome <steve@pepcross.com>
Cc:        performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux
Message-ID:  <42C0E730.5010703@gneto.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050627134146.GA626@bibipentium.lonres.com>
References:  <20050623145041.GC64879@bibipentium.lonres.com>	<42BD64F1.4080001@roq.com> <20050627134146.GA626@bibipentium.lonres.com>

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Steve Roome wrote:
> Sorry, good point, here's the my.cnf we're using. Please note however
> that although the configuration may not be optimal, we have been using
> the same config for benchmarking on Linux also. No matter how broken
> this my.cnf is we still shouldn't find MySQL running half the speed on
> an "identical" setups only switching from Linux to FreeBSD.

Hi,
Have you tested some more real-world queries on Linux vs. FreeBSD?
The select-key.smack is a very simple test, a very small table (5.3MB on 
disk, 90k rows), no joins/sorts and only selects from index. Maybe the 
performance difference just affects the connect/communication/thread 
syncronistaion and thus this simple test is a worst case test of 
performance between Linux & FreeBSD.

I'll try to set up something here so I can make some tests too...

How does a P4/Xeon compare to Athlon64/Opteron on these tests (Linux vs 
FreeBSD) the long pipeline in the P4 (Prescott/Nocona) is difficult to 
optimize for, SMP syncronisation is also much more expensive on 
netburst, maybe the are better at doing this in Linux?

Regards,
Martin




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