Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:55:14 +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: <20050617215514.GB37494@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <42B3450A.3020109@kjsl.com> References: <20050617210607.GA36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200506172112.j5HLC6U9043819@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> <20050617212125.GC36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> <42B34018.2040604@kjsl.com> <20050617214208.GG36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> <42B3450A.3020109@kjsl.com>
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On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 02:47:54PM -0700, Javier Henderson wrote.. > Wilko Bulte wrote: > >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... > > I'm sure some do. Others run theirs on VMS. Most run Tru64. Not a lot run VMS. We had stock exchanges run VMS. Like the Dutch Stock Exchange and the Australian one for example. > >Any idea what downtime costs per hour on those systems? > > A lot. > > -jav > > --- end of quoted text --- -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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