About FreeBSD and Solaris

[Joshua Tinnin]

On Wednesday 30 March 2005 11:58, "Andrew P." <infofarmer at mail.ru> 
wrote:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > Phil Brennan <phil.brennan at gmail.com> writes:
> >>This mysql benchmark includes solaris 10 and freebsd 5.3. Its a
> >> month or two old now, but its the only one I've seen. Dag-Erling,
> >> how does this show solaris to be slow on x86? It certainly isn't
> >> slow compared to freebsd.
> >
> > Please use something else than MySQL as benchmark, as MySQL has
> > well-known issues with FreeBSD's threading model.
>
> Latest talk on the Net suggests that freebsd is a
> perfect choice for mysql-based database, but you
> should compile it (mysql) with linux threads enabled.
>
> I think Yahoo has used mysql on freebsd for years
> on end. They have switched their core db units to
> linux-oracle, though.

That last part makes sense. Oracle is an obvious choice for what they 
would need. I'm curious to see what difference compiling MySQL with 
Linux threads would have, although if the problem is threading, then 
that makes sense, too.

- jt