* Toni Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-07 12:14]: > Hello, > > On Thu, 22.06.2006 at 12:49:22 +0200, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I haven't seen stability problems with mysql on OpenBSD in a long time. > > not even on sparc64. > > then you are very lucky, imho.
no, you are very unlucky or doing something very wrong. > On a variety of OpenBSD boxes, and with a variety of MySQL versions, I > experience random crashes or, mostly, hangs where the server does not > respond anymore, but also doesn't crash. In such cases, a violent kill > and a restart of the MySQL server is required to get going again. This > is from 3.7 to 3.9 with MySQL versions from 4.0.x to 5.0.x (from > ports), all on several i386 machines with different (PC-) hardware, > with _low_ traffic and _ample_ resources (enough to hold all databases > in RAM). as said before, our mysqlds on sparc64, mp- & up-i386, and sparc are very stable; some see more than 400 queries/s sometimes. -- BS Web Services, http://www.bsws.de/, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenBSD-based Webhosting, Mail Services, Managed Servers, ... Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)