Simon, I have been asked to support/bug-fix a Windows based web site using MySQL. I have used MySQL on Linux/FreeBSD for 3/4 years, but never on Windows. How does MySQL compare on Linux and Windows for stability and performance ?
=congratulations. Your relief appears in the phrase, MySQL is MySQL is MySQL! =it's very difficult to answer your question because 'it all depends...'. You are probably aware (see manual) that MySQL is developed on the likes of Suse Linux and then ported. One expects then that any 'gotchas' are going to be in the ports, rather than in the 'original' environment. However I have been using MySQL under Windows for quite some time and it sits there chugging away. So, porting MySQL from one OpSys to another doesn't cause instability per-se. =as you will be well aware, a properly set up operating system is a pre-requisite for any app/service (M$ word for daemon) to be stable. Accordingly the 'Windows connection' comes down to the skill of the tech setting up the h/w and OpSys s/w. If the h/w keeps burping a fault or the OpSys can't handle something, then everything else goes down in a heap too - regardless of Win or Linux! (not seeking a religious war here, merely pointing out that there are many flavors of (in)competence!). On the other hand I'm no propeller-head and yet have had no problems (so far). =I don't recall seeing any meaningful comparative-performance specs - how could one make such a comparison 'fair and true' anyway? Then there are the real-world issues of what else the box is expected to perform, its place in the network's routing, blah-blah-blah. =One thing you may have to watch is whether you can use Win equivalents of your preferred admin/mgmt tool - if MySQLCC then you're in-to-win, but some have no Linux/Win equivalents. Another is the use of different directories/paths, but I'm sure that will be obvious enough. =Jump on in, the water's fine! =dn --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
