[nycbug-talk] MySQL and FreeBSD 6.0

[Trish Lynch]

I think the main issues with MySQL and FreeBSD are primarily of tuning, even Linux requires OS tuning to run right, but the documentation is all there. Not alway so for FreeBSD. 

It might be nice for those running bigger sites on FreeBSD to document the back-side OS tunings, though for some of us, translating some of the tunings used for Linux to their comparable FreeBSD values (number of threads available, number of open files, depending on thread model used, etc) could also work.

Problem being in FreeBSD 6, much of this has changed because of the introduction of new kernel threading models - the same thing that increases native java performance appreciably (almost 200%)

-Trish
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Hans Zaunere" <lists at zaunere.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:48:37 
To:"'N.J. Thomas'" <njt at ayvali.org>
Cc:talk at lists.nycbug.org
Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] MySQL and FreeBSD 6.0



N.J. Thomas wrote on Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:57 AM:
> * Hans Zaunere <lists at zaunere.com> [2006-10-18 22:09:51 -0400]:
> > > but finally decided to stick with Linux/MySQL because of reported
> > > performance issues as well as problems with the ULE scheduler that
> > > people recommended be used for MySQL.
> > 
> > So you were still seeing issues on 6.1?  Per some links I posted
> > earlier, they say 6.1 should clear up many issues... hrm, not good.
> 
> I should clarify, we never moved to MySQL/FreeBSD because we had heard
> of these issues. I head also heard good things about MySQL running on
> 6.1 as well, but overall we got mixed reports, and seeing as how there
> weren't any similar issues with Linux, we stuck with that.
> 
> If anything, I was itching to move the DBs to FreeBSD, but in the end
> the final conclusion that was reached was that because we were on an
> extremely tight schedule, it was probably not worth the hassle, so we
> are remaining with Linux -- for now.

Thanks for the clarification.  And I agree - if it ain't broke, don't fix
it.  Linux and MySQL are stable together - something about the licenses I
think...

H

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