Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 18:11:35 -0400 From: Jarrod Martin <jmartin37@speakeasy.net> To: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Owe_Andr=E9_J=F8rgensen?= <oweandre@stud.ntnu.no>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux Message-ID: <42B34A97.3000602@speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <20050617214013.GF36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20050617210607.GA36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200506172112.j5HLC6U9043819@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> <20050617212125.GC36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> <42B34020.3050203@stud.ntnu.no> <20050617214013.GF36959@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Wilko Bulte wrote: >On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:26:56PM +0200, Owe Andr? J?rgensen wrote.. > > >>Wilko Bulte wrote: >> >> >>>On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:12:06PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote.. >>> >>> >>> >>>>Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> writes: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>If you give me $5 per Unix system found there I can retire here and now. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>For financial transaction processing, and the customer's accounts? >>>> >>>> >>>Yes. Go and visit the London City and check their computer rooms. >>>You will be surprised about the number of UNIX boxes. You don't >>>think IBM, HP, Sun etc sell their UNIX machines just to ISPs or..? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>I hope it's not my bank.. >>>> >>>> >>>It might very well be your bank.. >>> >>> >>> >>I'm sorry to say it, but there is a lot of mainframes a quite few unix >>boxes in the central accounting and transfer departments. >> >>remember that there are a shitload of Cobol Mainframes that are still >>used by a lot of banks.. >> >> > >Sure. But that does not mean there are not a lot of UNIX machines carrying >high-value financial data in the banking world. > >What we forgot: there are quite some Tandem boxes too, for things like >dealing rooms and ATM networks etc. > > > this is a FreeBSD vs Linux MySQL performance thread. not a pissing contest about banking mainframes...
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