On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
Could you try mounting the filesystem where the database lives with
the noatime option, and re-run your tests ? IIRC from previous threads
on this subject, Linux doesn't really honor this while FreeBSD does,
which pulls down the performances.
I think
I just tried this on my dual opteron test rig and didn't notice a difference
in performance with noatime set. What did make a difference was moving from
fxp to bge network cards. bge supports checksum offloading where fxp only
supports interrupt bundling. Freed up another 20% idle during my test ru
At 01:33 PM 29/06/2005 +0100, Robert Watson wrote this to All:
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Steve Roome wrote:
The different threading libraries are more for completeness. In my last
test I saw <10% difference between them on amd64.
Well, I finally got some tests out for FreeBSD/i386 with -current,
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Steve Roome wrote:
The different threading libraries are more for completeness. In my
last test I saw <10% difference between them on amd64.
Well, I finally got some tests out for FreeBSD/i386 with -current, Here
we go with a bunch of results of FreeBSD 6 with mysql and
Hi Michael, hi Steve,
> For me this is as fast as I need my database to be but I can understand
> there is a difference here between FreeBSD and Linux that would make you
> prefer it as the db OS choice.
Could you try mounting the filesystem where the database lives with
the noatime option, and
