Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 13:29:32 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: tom@sdf.com (Tom) Cc: shocking@prth.pgs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Advocacy Mission: (Re: Oracle 7 on FreeBSD ) Message-ID: <199805081829.NAA16030@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980507223842.3188A-100000@misery.sdf.com> from Tom at "May 7, 98 10:40:53 pm"
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Tom said: > > On Fri, 8 May 1998, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > > > Hmmm. Has anyone done some benchmarks on this beast and how well does it > > compare to other OS's on the same hardware? > > > > > > Stephen > > Rumours are that it is not good. AFAIK, Oracle is written with threads > and/or AIO. It seems to use its own user mode thread library (just like > the Solid DBMS), which gives it mediocre multiuser performance (also just > like Solid). > I agree, except current reports do show that FreeBSD does OK, but not stellar. I wrote the AIO stuff to support the Oracle database and video server stuff. It has languished for awhile, but will definitely be in a public, final form by 3.0. The internal info that I have heard (3rd hand) is that with AIO, FreeBSD is okay for sure. If I get my hands on it someday, I might be able to do so optimization. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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