FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

[Wilko Bulte]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 02:47:54PM -0700, Javier Henderson wrote..
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >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... 
> 
> I'm sure some do. Others run theirs on VMS.

Most run Tru64.  Not a lot run VMS.  We had stock exchanges run VMS.
Like the Dutch Stock Exchange and the Australian one for example.  

> >Any idea what downtime costs per hour on those systems?  
> 
> A lot.
> 
> -jav
> 
> 
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