From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 17 21:40:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A99B416A41C for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 21:40:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DE6643D48 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 21:40:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j5HLeDXP040365; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:40:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j5HLeD26037304; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:40:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j5HLeDae037303; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:40:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb) Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:40:13 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Owe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_J=F8rgensen?= Message-ID: <20050617214013.GF36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20050617210607.GA36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200506172112.j5HLC6U9043819@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> <20050617212125.GC36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> <42B34020.3050203@stud.ntnu.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42B34020.3050203@stud.ntnu.no> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 21:40:15 -0000 On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:26:56PM +0200, Owe Andr? J?rgensen wrote.. > Wilko Bulte wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:12:06PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote.. > > > >>Wilko Bulte writes: > >> > >> > >>>If you give me $5 per Unix system found there I can retire here and now. > >> > >>For financial transaction processing, and the customer's accounts? > > > > > >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..? > > > > > >>I hope it's not my bank.. > > > > > >It might very well be your bank.. > > > I'm sorry to say it, but there is a lot of mainframes a quite few unix > boxes in the central accounting and transfer departments. > > remember that there are a shitload of Cobol Mainframes that are still > used by a lot of banks.. Sure. But that does not mean there are not a lot of UNIX machines carrying high-value financial data in the banking world. What we forgot: there are quite some Tandem boxes too, for things like dealing rooms and ATM networks etc. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org