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Date:      Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:55:16 +0200
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        chat@freebsd.org
Cc:        Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us>, uzi@bmby.com, Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>, Javier Henderson <javier@kjsl.com>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux
Message-ID:  <200506172355.25713.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <42B3450A.3020109@kjsl.com>
References:  <20050617210607.GA36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20050617214208.GG36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> <42B3450A.3020109@kjsl.com>

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On Friday 17 June 2005 23:47, 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.
>
> > Any idea what downtime costs per hour on those systems?
>
> A lot.

So how is this relevant for freebsd-stable@ ? ... Thanks!

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