Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 14:47:54 -0700 From: Javier Henderson <javier@kjsl.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us>, uzi@bmby.com, Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux Message-ID: <42B3450A.3020109@kjsl.com> In-Reply-To: <20050617214208.GG36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20050617210607.GA36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200506172112.j5HLC6U9043819@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> <20050617212125.GC36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> <42B34018.2040604@kjsl.com> <20050617214208.GG36959@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 02:26:48PM -0700, Javier Henderson 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..? >> >>But are those Unix servers actually processing bank transactions and >>holding customer accounts? > > > Why not? As an aside: what do you think telecom operators run their > main billing systems on? UNIX... I'm sure some do. Others run theirs on VMS. > Any idea what downtime costs per hour on those systems? A lot. -jav
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