Nigel Champion writes:
> Hi,
>
> I have a PIII 800MHz 2GB RAM Linux (Suse 6.4) server running mysql version
> 3.23.28
> I also have 2 Solaris machines a E440R with 2x450MHz CPUs and 512MB of RAM
> (this is results 2 & 3)
> and a E4500 with 4x450MHz 4MB cache CPUs and 2GB of RAM with a 12 disk SCSI
> array connected via fibre.
>
> But but using sql-bench that came with mysql the solaris boxes perform bad..
> :(
> Even my application seems very sluggish on the Solaris boxes.
> I have tried a pre-compiled binary and compling my own.... all still very
> slow.
>
> So two things I guess 1) Are Ultra SPARC 450MHz 4MB cache CPUs no match for
> a single 800MHz PIII?
> 2) is there a problem with the Solaris port?
>
> I am using the "huge" my.cnf for all test.
>
> Thanks
>
> Nigel
Hi!
No, there is nothing wrong with Solaris port. Your benchmarks match
our findings.
It is not a hardware issue, simply Linux is faster OS, especially
since it got 2.4 kernel and 2.2 glibc.
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