Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:17:19 -0600 From: David Drum <david@mu.org> To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which is Better for MySQL FreeBSD or BSDi? Message-ID: <20001115171718.B31034@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001115141301.nicole@daemontech.com>; from nicole@daemontech.com on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 02:13:01PM -0800 References: <3A12A3E2.6552DA8@parkinson.it> <XFMail.001115141301.nicole@daemontech.com>
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Quoth Nicole Harrington: > Well in the hope that this list is not dead... As one can verify via the list archives, that is not the case. > My question> for running MySql, which would be better, FreeBSD or BSDi? > I Thought I had heard that BSDi would be better. > > Any opinions, thoughts? As always, it depends. Are you already familiar with one or the other? Do you have the financial resources to pay for BSDi? Are you in an enterprise environment where paid technical support is expected to be available? Are you running a large enough database application that you will need a multiprocessor system? (FreeBSD's SMP code is not nearly as good as BSDi's, though soon that will be less true. The same goes for kernel threads. (Someone please tell me if I am wrong on the second point.)) If money is an issue, go with FreeBSD and get a really fast CPU and most importantly a lot of RAM, so that you never swap and you can fit the entire database indexes in memory. Just my opinions. For best results, try out your application under both OSes. Regards, David Drum david@mu.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message
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