Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:35:22 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> To: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us>, uzi@bmby.com, Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux Message-ID: <200506172135.j5HLZMui043949@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> of "Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:21:25 %2B0200." <20050617212125.GC36959@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> writes: >Yes. Go and visit the London City and check their computer rooms. >You will be surprised about the number of UNIX boxes. You don't >think IBM, HP, Sun etc sell their UNIX machines just to ISPs or..? And these are the machines where the master account data is stored? >It might very well be your bank.. I've browsed a bit.. they seem to be using one (or more) S/390 (zSeries). Although a different branch office indeed seems to have replaced it for a couple pSeries machines with AIX and some Veritas clusters but I don't know what the purpose of this installation is. But in general I'd think that mainframes are still dominant here. From what I've heard, all transactions are also printed, in real-time, on paper (by high-speed lineprinters), so that even when the machines fail completely and lose transaction data, there is still a hardcopy log. At least I hope that this is (still) true. mkb.
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