FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

[Wilko Bulte]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 02:26:48PM -0700, Javier Henderson wrote..
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:12:06PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote..
> >
> >>Wilko Bulte <wb at freebie.xs4all.nl> writes:
> >>
> >>
> >>>If you give me $5 per Unix system found there I can retire here and now.
> >>
> >>For financial transaction processing, and the customer's accounts?
> >
> >
> >Yes.  Go and visit the London City and check their computer rooms.  
> >You will be surprised about the number of UNIX boxes.  You don't
> >think IBM, HP, Sun etc sell their UNIX machines just to ISPs or..?
> 
> But are those Unix servers actually processing bank transactions and 
> holding customer accounts?

Why not?   As an aside:  what do you think telecom operators run their
main billing systems on?  UNIX...  Any idea what downtime costs per hour
on those systems?  

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org