MySQL benchmarks

[Maxim Sobolev]

The difference between linux and everything else in those tests is so 
significant even on UP, so that I suspect that something wrong with the 
approach.

-Maxim

Miguel Mendez wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Someone has posted a link to a newsforge article on the NetBSD lists
> that benchmarks MySQL performance on several systems, you can see it at:
> 
> http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/27/1243207&from=rss
> 
> I don't know how much Linux-specific code there is in MySQL because,
> honestly, I always try to avoid it and go with PostgreSQL, but perhaps
> somebody with more MySQL-fu can fill in the blanks and confirm that the
> better performance seen on Linux systems is due to how the software is
> designed and not so much related to FreeBSD per se.
> 
> Cheers,