Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 19:01:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: JG <amd64list@jpgsworld.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is MySQL nearly twice as fast on Linux/AMD64 Vs. FreeBSD/AMD64? Message-ID: <16557.14509.453199.165108@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20040518103357.04c6cbb8@mail.ojoink.com> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20040518103357.04c6cbb8@mail.ojoink.com>
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JG writes: > The benchmarks were done from a remote server on the LAN, using myBench. > Unfortunately, myBench doesn't seem to simulate actual real-world user loads. > Super-smack does, but I ran into problems compiling it, and then more when > trying > to use it remotely. Super-smack-1.3 is supposed to be coming out soon, > hopefully > it will fix some of these problems. > Can you describe in more detail the network configuration? Is it a gigabit link? If so, have you compared just the network performance between FreeBSD and Linux on this box, using the host you're running myBench on? Try the netperf port.. A recent posting in -net suggests there may be some network performance problems on amd64 (or it could have just been the tester's machine). (http://lists.FreeBSD.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2004-May/004034.html) Drew
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