Why is MySQL nearly twice as fast on Linux?

[Daniel Eischen]

On Mon, 24 May 2004, Petri Helenius wrote:

> Thomas Hurst wrote:
> 
> >
> >Only if you're only using one table.  While this is true in this
> >benchmark, it isn't really relevent because we're only testing selects,
> >which are pure reads.  There should be no table locking getting in the
> >way; Linux's performance would seem to confirm this.
> >
> 
> I changed the test to use InnoDB table type and saw 50% performance 
> improvement.

Are you able to run the test using InnoDB under Linux also
(just to see if Linux also gets a ~50% improvement)?

What did you do to change the test (got a diff)?

-- 
Dan