Recommended MySQL 4.1 Installation

[Abdullah Al-Marrie]

On 1/19/07, Gordon Smith <gordon_s_smith at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Now that FreeBSD 6.2 is out, can anyone recommend specific configurations
> for FBSD and MySQL V.4.1 that deliver a really stable and fast (emphasizing
> stable) DB platform on 6.2?  In the absence of such, info about 6.1 would
> also be greatly appreciated.
>
> Would I need to compile a specific threading library into FreeBSD to avoid
> panics or other problems that may occur under high load?
>
> I'm happy to RTFM on this.  The last really good info I remember seeing
> about this (specifically about FBSD and MySQL) was from:
> - Jeremy Zawodny's blog entry
>     http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000697.html
> - the mysql.com doc page
>     http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/freebsd.html
>
> I would be willing to sacrifice some reasonable degree of performance for
> stability (if needed), so I want to be careful here.  Running the Linux
> compatability layer is an option, if needed - I'm not sure if the Linux
> compatability layer is needed to support Linux threads (if Linux threads are
> the best choice of threading library to use with MySQL).
>
> Has anyone done recent benchmarks to compare threading libraries?

I'm just wondering why don't you go for MySQL 5.0.27 with libthr
instead of using linuxthreads?

MySQL 5.0.x with libthr runs faster than 4.1.x.

http://wikitest.freebsd.org/MySQL

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-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
Arab Portal
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