From owner-freebsd-database Wed Nov 15 19:27:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f215.pav1.hotmail.com [64.4.31.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1BD437B4CF for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 19:27:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 19:27:48 -0800 Received: from 202.101.165.61 by pv1fd.pav1.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 03:27:48 GMT X-Originating-IP: [202.101.165.61] From: "frank xu" To: freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which is Better for MySQL FreeBSD or BSDi? Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:27:48 CST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Nov 2000 03:27:48.0787 (UTC) FILETIME=[31972830:01C04F7D] Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: David Drum To: Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 7:17 AM Subject: Re: Which is Better for MySQL FreeBSD or BSDi? >Quoth Nicole Harrington: > > > Well in the hope that this list is not dead... > >As one can verify via the list archives, that is not the case. > > > My question> for running MySql, which would be better, FreeBSD or BSDi? > > I Thought I had heard that BSDi would be better. > > Any opinions, >thoughts? > >As always, it depends. Are you already familiar with one or the other? >Do you have the financial resources to pay for BSDi? Are you in an >enterprise environment where paid technical support is expected to >be available? Are you running a large enough database application >that you will need a multiprocessor system? (FreeBSD's SMP code is not >nearly as good as BSDi's, though soon that will be less true. The same >goes for kernel threads. (Someone please tell me if I am wrong on the >second point.)) do this mean FreeBSD 5.0 will still not support kernel-level thread? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message