On Friday, 2 December 2005 at 13:23:50 +1100, Michael Vince wrote: > It would be good to actually see the Linux performance on the exact same > hardware, all we ever see is how it is on FreeBSD. > > MySQL has very frequent use of queries of the system time and is > well known in FreeBSD to be slower because its more expensive to > call compared to Linux, which has less precision time.
I've heard this claim again and again, and I intend to look at it when
I have time. I find it difficult to believe that this alone could
explain the sometimes horrendous performance differences (3 to 1) that
have been reported.
Can somebody tell me:
1. How many calls there are per second?
2. Where they're coming from? This would involve profiling, of
course.
Greg
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