From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 17 23:24:53 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 0C36C16A41C for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:24:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jon@seaholm.caamora.com.au) Received: from seaholm.caamora.com.au (seaholm.caamora.com.au [203.7.226.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C7FB43D48 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:24:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jon@seaholm.caamora.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by seaholm.caamora.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) id j5HNNwp02715; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 09:23:58 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <20050618092358.50234@caamora.com.au> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 09:23:58 +1000 From: jonathan michaels To: Matthias Buelow References: <200506172112.j5HLC6U9043819@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <200506172112.j5HLC6U9043819@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net>; from Matthias Buelow on Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:12:06PM +0200 Organisation: Caamora, PO Box 144, Rosebery NSW 1445 Australia Cc: Wilko Bulte , Greg Barniskis , uzi@bmby.com, 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 23:24:53 -0000 matthias, 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? > I hope it's not my bank.. i know i'm not so well thought of around these parts .. but for my $AUD0.02 worth. my last two contracts, believe it or not i was a systems analyst for some 12 years before i was retired out of my last contract to become a permanently disabled man, now on permanent disability welfare. the nature of my disabilites leaves me with impeared communications skills and severe chronic pain, for which i take lareg quantities of very heavy duty analgesics .. whchi also impear teh (already impearde) communications skills. i'm writing to let you know that two of australias largest banks not only run whooping great mainframes but also run mainframe UNIX, no not linux but commercial UNIX and for the 6 plus years i worked in teh backoffice in a development on a cash management tool the only errors i saw the mainfreme and its unix operating system make were directly attributable to human errors .. mainly misskeying on teh transactions scripts or latter when teh "OCR" readers didn't deccipher the humans handwriting on teh transactons slipps. also but in teh lmosta rare as hens teeth was a poorly MICR encoded transaction script that gage ambigious results on multiple passes through the decoder that lead to poor quality data. umm yes computers make mistakes, and mainframes make bigger mistakes, and unix makes really big mistakes but its usually the case that its been told precisely to do that, whchis wrong by its human handler. please note: i'm not putting teh tellers and data operatiors on teh freing line. its teh banks management that loking to squeeze every last drop of profit from n aging, ols and creaking system thats making all these so called "computer errors" .. its so easy to accuse somebody or thing when its not able (or given a chance) to defend itself. sory i;m starting to mount my soap box here .. tak care matthias mainframes are only very big unix boxen in desguise. best wish and most warm regards jonathan -- ================================================================ powered by .. QNX, OS9 and freeBSD -- http://caamora com au/operating system ==== === appropriate solution in an inappropriate world === ====