It's good, but if it's a multiprocessor machine, OpenBSD won't take full advantage of the other processors with MySQL since MySQL is multi-threaded. But it's stable, and runs reasonably fast (and you are assured the system is more secure, being OpenBSD and all).
My only concern, then, is really if it's a multiprocessor machine, and you need breakneck performance, you might want to consider running MySQL on FreeBSD with linuxthreads. -Jesse On 6/20/06, Anders J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello List. A customer have a mailserver solution wich must be moved to a new hardware, today its is running on a old suse 9.2 but i really want to use OpenBSD if possible. It uses postfix, cyrus-imap and mysql as the backend for users domain info, contacts etc. (only 58 named users and 3 domains and several aliases) My self have experienced mixed issues with MysSQL on OpenBSD and also read and heard about performance and stability problems with MySQL on OpenBSD. So i'm a bit nervous implementing this on OpenBSD (Should i use FreeBSD instead)?. Has anyone a positive experience with 3.9+ MySQl mysql-server-5.0.21.tgz <ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/packages/i386/mysql-server-5.0.21.tgz>(or later)? And by the way it is not an option to use postgresql since they also have several other apps which use the database in question .So migrate to an other db platform is NOT an option. Regards Anders
