On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:50:30PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> On 01 Jun 2001 00:30:20 -0400, David Freeman wrote:
> >
> > My question is, what is the best OS for a heavy usage,
> > multi-processor mysql database driven web site. We could use
> > almost anything, but we would prefer to use a free OS such as
> > freebsd or Linux based OS.
>
> Some people reported better performance for MySQL on Linux than on
> Solaris, using the same hardware (Sparc). While i don't think
> there's much difference between Linux and FreeBSD, i would expect
> Linux-2.4 to handle SMP and threads a little bit better than
> FreeBSD. But this is close to religious war...
Actually, it has little to do with religion and lots to do with
fact. I work in what's almost completely a FreeBSD shop. We have core
FreeBSD developers on staff. But we still use Linux for our SMP MySQL
servers.
When FreeBSD catches up, I'll glady switch [back] to it. :-)
Jeremy
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