FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux
Shawn Mitchell
shawnm at iodamedia.net
Sun Jun 26 03:21:34 GMT 2005
Can't remember off the top of my head, I'll throw 5.x onto a lab box here in
a bit and see.
-Shawn
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Gerzo [mailto:danger at rulez.sk]
Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 2:59 PM
To: Shawn Mitchell
Cc: 'Michael Vince'; 'Steve Roome'; performance at freebsd.org
Subject: Re[2]: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux
Nemam dobru naladu Shawn,
Saturday, June 25, 2005, 7:26:22 PM, si odoslal:
> I tested a MySQL install on a Dell 6600. It's specs were 8 GB ram, 12 x
73
> 15k rpm drives (Ultra320) on a RAID5, 4 Xeon MP w/ 2 meg of cache, HT
> enabled so the OS saw 8 CPU's.
> Every time, a stock linux install (SuSE, CentOS, and Fedora) were always
> faster than FreeBSD stock, or custom kernel utilizing different options.
> I never could fully benchmark it running on Linux; as I never got the
server
> to max out before my benchmarking machine maxed out.
> If your using 4.x, add these to your config file
> options MAXDSIZ="(256*1024*1024)"
> options MAXSSIZ="(256*1024*1024)"
> options DFLDSIZ="(256*1024*1024)"
these are not possible to use under 5.x?
> I noticed a HUGE difference on FreeBSD with those added, but it still
> doesn't crank up there with Linux.
> Also, default linux install's do not make it use more ram. You still have
> to copy one of the my-xxx.cnf files over to /etc/my.cnf or
> /usr/local/etc/my.cnf
> MySQL is developed on Linux, and ported to FreeBSD. That's the best
> explanation you'll get probably.
> Your posting a lot of configuration here except the most easily
> important one for performance in MySQL, thats your my.cnf configuration
file
> You will more then double your performance if you just start off by
copying
> /usr/local/share/mysql/my-large.cnf
> to
> /var/db/mysql
> MySQL out of the box setup to use a tiny amount of ram and it wouldn't
> surprise me if a lot of Linux distributions have a much more high
> performance my.cnf file since most distributions are aimed at people who
> don't know what they are doing.
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