[nycbug-talk] MySQL Database Performance on FreeBSD 7

[Alex Pilosov]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Steven Kreuzer wrote:

> Interesting paper on MySQL performance under FreeBSD 7
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/mysql.html
> 
> In a nutshell, FreeBSD out-performed Linux by a large margin at high
> loads. As of Linux 2.6.22 (Fedora 8) they have fixed the most serious
> scaling problem but they still have 15% lower performance than FreeBSD
> on this workload.
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/linux/sysbench/

this is science, a little bit of it - the high number of contextswitches 
is clearly a symptom of something. most likely, mysql brokenness.


there's still nobody who's smart enough to use oprofile who would do
*real* science.

-alex