Why is MySQL nearly twice as fast on Linux?

[Daniel Eischen]

On Sun, 23 May 2004, JG wrote:

> At 08:09 PM 5/23/2004 +0300, you wrote:
> >JG wrote:
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> >>I am just a layman here, but what does this mean?
> >You seem to have a very small number of active threads. When I tried=20
> >supersmack on fairly old machine (800MHz dual pentium) I get ~30 active=
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> >mysql threads using CPU between 1.5% and 3.5%.
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> You mean where I have the 3 instances of mysqld running in top?  You have=
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> ~30 instances?
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> Why would your box use more? Is there any configuration or flag in mysql=
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> that would cause this?
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> How was your mysql compiled? What version of FreeBSD are you running?
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> >I would suspect the test is limited by context switch and syscall=20
> >overhead. With the old machine I see >70000 syscalls and >20000 context=
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> >switches a second. So I suspect FreeBSD syscall overhead compared to lin=
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> >must be higher. Mysql also asks for time repeatedly so make sure you are=
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> >running ACPI timecounters. (don=B4t know if they are available on AMD64)=
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> I know that this FreeBSD/AMD64 reports that it is using ACPI... how do I=
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> find out if its using timecounters, or using them properly?

Doesn't Linux use HZ=3D1000 by default now and FreeBSD is still at HZ=3D100=
?
Could that affect anything?

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Dan Eischen