From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 8 11:30:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08906 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 11:30:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08705 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 11:29:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dyson@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16030; Fri, 8 May 1998 13:29:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dyson) Message-Id: <199805081829.NAA16030@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: New Advocacy Mission: (Re: Oracle 7 on FreeBSD ) In-Reply-To: from Tom at "May 7, 98 10:40:53 pm" To: tom@sdf.com (Tom) Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 13:29:32 -0500 (EST) Cc: shocking@prth.pgs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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