Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:42:08 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Javier Henderson <javier@kjsl.com> 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: <20050617214208.GG36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <42B34018.2040604@kjsl.com> References: <20050617210607.GA36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200506172112.j5HLC6U9043819@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> <20050617212125.GC36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> <42B34018.2040604@kjsl.com>
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On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 02:26:48PM -0700, Javier Henderson wrote.. > Wilko Bulte wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:12:06PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote.. > > > >>Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> 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..? > > But are those Unix servers actually processing bank transactions and > holding customer accounts? Why not? As an aside: what do you think telecom operators run their main billing systems on? UNIX... Any idea what downtime costs per hour on those systems? -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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