FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

[Nick Evans]

I just tried this on my dual opteron test rig and didn't notice a difference
in performance with noatime set. What did make a difference was moving from
fxp to bge network cards. bge supports checksum offloading where fxp only
supports interrupt bundling. Freed up another 20% idle during my test runs.
I'm now hitting ~23,000 selects/sec, ~42% idle when running select-key.smack
from 3 client hosts. If we establish a suitable test mix and distribute the
smack/data files at least we can get consistent test results across systems.

Nick 

6-CURRENT as of Jun 27th
Dual Opteron 246
Tyan K8SD Thunder Pro
4GB RAM
my-huge.cnf with tweaks.


On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:45:33 +0200
Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie at le-hen.org> wrote:

> Hi Michael, hi Steve,
> 
> > For me this is as fast as I need my database to be but I can understand 
> > there is a difference here between FreeBSD and Linux that would make you 
> > prefer it as the db OS choice.
> 
> Could you try mounting the filesystem where the database lives with
> the noatime option, and re-run your tests ?  IIRC from previous threads
> on this subject, Linux doesn't really honor this while FreeBSD does,
> which pulls down the performances.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Jeremie Le Hen
> < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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