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Cc: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: mysql scaling questions
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At 03:56 PM 12/1/2007, Gergely CZUCZY wrote:
>I don't quite understand the question. It's the very same box, with
>a dualboot configuration.

Fire up the 3ware controller's RAID management software and make sure 
the same write caching strategy is set for FreeBSD and Linux. The 
driver my default to different values.

i.e. under "controller settings" make sure "write cache" and 
"queuing" are the same values for linux and freebsd.

         ---Mike