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Comparing MySQL Performance

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the last-ounce-of-quickness dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With the introduction of the 2.6 Linux kernel, FreeBSD 5-STABLE, Solaris 10, and now NetBSD 2.0, you might be wondering which of them offers superior database performance. These two articles will show you how to benchmark operating system performance using MySQL on these operating systems so you can find out for yourself if you're missing out. While this may not necessarily be indicative of overall system performance or overall database application performance, it will tell you specifically how well MySQL performs on your platform."

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  1. What no Windows benchmarks? by sjrstory · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought Windows XP was supposed to be the Fastest and the Most Reliable OS in the World

    ...never believe everything you read on the Intarweb. ;)

  2. use windows! by mboverload · · Score: 5, Funny
    I use Windows Server 2003 for all my SQL needs. It is 20% faster than an equivilent Linux machine!

    Well, at least thats what Microsoft told me...

  3. Re:Did you even read the article? by isometrick · · Score: 2, Funny

    Click the second link in the summary, sir.

  4. Re:Other Benchmarking by E_elven · · Score: 5, Funny
    Does anyone know of a nice computational/science benchmark that runs on Linux/Windows/BSD and is free?


    Try:
    int main(int argc, char** argv)
    {
    for (long i = 0; true; ++i)
    {
    char* x = new char[i*i];
    std::cout << "I love Stevie Hawking!" << std::endl;
    }
    }
    You'll need a stopwatch.
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    Marxist evolution is just N generations away!
  5. Re:That's all well and good, but... by iamsure · · Score: 2, Funny

    Quoting Joey Tribbiani: "Its a moo point. It's like a cows opinion, its just moo."

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    GPL'd web-based tradewars themed space game
  6. Re:That's all well and good, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...it may even be a mute argument...

    My favorite! Sometimes I can win those!

  7. Re:That's all well and good, but... by dubl-u · · Score: 5, Funny
    and it may even be a mute argument ...
    or even more likely, a moot argument

    So you think. It's all the rage now to have technial meetings where nobody speaks and all arguments are made through pantomime. I'm sure that's what he's talking about.

    My favorite thing to explain that way is an elevator algorithm, although stochastic fair queueing is a close second.
  8. Re:That's all well and good, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    When you can compare someone's grasp of language to Joey Tribbiani's, it makes you wonder if they really understood the rest of the words they used in their post like "Tuple calculus", "Transaction journaling", "Operator space/system call overhead", "Disk cache timings"

  9. Re:Why do people use MySQL over Postgres? by aixou · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why swat a fly with a sledgehammer?

    As an exercise of motor skills.

  10. Re:Different filesystems? by PedanticSpellingTrol · · Score: 3, Funny

    He's obviously added another layer of depth to the joke by counting in base one.

  11. Re:That's all well and good, but... by PieEye · · Score: 3, Funny

    Man, if I had a nickel for every time I saw a mute stochastic fair queueing argument at Starbucks...I'd...uhhh...never mind.

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    ... in bed.
  12. Re:That's all well and good, but... by LDoggg_ · · Score: 2, Funny

    Man, if I had a nickel for every time I saw a mute stochastic fair queueing argument at Starbucks...I'd...

    Still not be able to afford a cup of their coffee?

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    "If they have both, tell them we use Linux. And if they have that, tell them the computers are down." -Dave Chapelle
  13. Re:That's all well and good, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Soory, wrong answer. The card says "moops".