FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

[Javier Henderson]

Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 02:26:48PM -0700, Javier Henderson wrote..
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>>Wilko Bulte wrote:
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>>>On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:12:06PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote..
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>>>>Wilko Bulte <wb at freebie.xs4all.nl> writes:
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>>>>>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... 

I'm sure some do. Others run theirs on VMS.

> Any idea what downtime costs per hour on those systems?  

A lot.

-jav