MySQL Performance 6.0rc1

[Will Saxon]

> 
> This kind of issue, but also performance differences, are a
> disadvantage for both groups.  One of my tasks at MySQL is to do
> something about that, but I'm spread pretty thin.  If anybody has
> input on this kind of topic, I'd be interested to hear from you.

Well I would like to see a HOWTO or something about proper configuration
of MySQL for FreeBSD systems. 

I have a quad opteron that I am currently struggling with using 6.0-RC1,
and I am staring at some of the benchmarks in this thread with disbelief
as I can only pull about 9K qps where others are getting 18-20K qps with
lesser hardware. 

I may just not be very good at searching through list archives, but it's
difficult to find up to date information including suggested kernel
configurations, gotchas for high memory configurations, etc.

-Will