From owner-freebsd-database Wed Nov 15 20:55: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 726A837B479 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:55:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13wGfy-00013F-00; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:29:30 -0800 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:29:28 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: Nicole Harrington Cc: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which is Better for MySQL FreeBSD or BSDi? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Nicole Harrington wrote: > Well in the hope that this list is not dead... > > My question> for running MySql, which would be better, FreeBSD or BSDi? > > I Thought I had heard that BSDi would be better. > > Any opinions, thoughts? > > > Nicole I think FreeBSD is better supported by MySQL. However, you should probably direct this to the MySQL developers. I have a 2GB MySQL database under FreeBSD 3.x. It works ok. MySQL's table-locking stinks, but that isn't an OS issue. If I was going to start again, I wouldn't use MySQL because of the table-locking issues. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message