Comparing MySQL Performance

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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Other Benchmarking

[X43B]

Does anyone know of a nice computational/science benchmark that runs on Linux/Windows/BSD and is free?

Something along the lines of Linpack would be neat. Yes, I know hpl exist but there it isn't in the yum package list for Fedora Core 3 and I couldn't get all the dependcies worked out doing it separately (being a dumb engineer not a CS guru).

Anyone heard of an abstract?

[tod_miller]

Abstract: In the next article, I'll present the results for all six operating systems.

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Or does that really negate the point of the meandering artcile? I mean, is it so damn hard to say, this article comapred blah foo schmoo and bar and found schmoo to kick ass, but also that foo was fairly good. It is a bad news article

What an annoying whoring article, it promises so much, a delivers so little, I hope thier advertising was worth it.

That is why I fucking hate bloggers who whore themselves out at the expense of my search result time. Whores!! :-) (yeah yeah, mod down for language, but it pisses me off!)