FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

[Jarrod Martin]

Wilko Bulte wrote:

>On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:26:56PM +0200, Owe Andr? J?rgensen 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.
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>>>>For financial transaction processing, and the customer's accounts?
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>>>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..?
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>>>>I hope it's not my bank..
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>>>It might very well be your bank..
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>>I'm sorry to say it, but there is a lot of mainframes a quite few unix 
>>boxes in the central accounting and transfer departments.
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>>remember that there are a shitload of Cobol Mainframes that are still 
>>used by a lot of banks..
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>Sure.  But that does not mean there are not a lot of UNIX machines carrying
>high-value financial data in the banking world.
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>What we forgot:  there are quite some Tandem boxes too, for things like
>dealing rooms and ATM networks etc.
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this is a FreeBSD vs Linux MySQL performance thread.  not a pissing 
contest about banking mainframes...