On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:38:51AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Tom,
>
> > You are asking the wrong question. The best OS is the OS you (and/or
> > the customer) knows and can administer competently.
>
> I'll have to 2nd this.
I'll 3rd but add one tidbit: FreeBSD will schedule disk I/O based
The real
performance differences between unices are so small as to be ignorable
in this context.
<>
Well, at least the difference between Linux and BSD. There are
substantial
tradeoffs should you chose to use Solaris or UnixWare.
Yes, quite right, I should have said 'po
Tom,
> You are asking the wrong question. The best OS is the OS you (and/or
> the customer) knows and can administer competently.
I'll have to 2nd this.
> The real
> performance differences between unices are so small as to be ignorable
> in this context.
Well, at least the difference bet
You are asking the wrong question. The best OS is the OS you (and/or
the customer) knows and can administer competently. The real
performance differences between unices are so small as to be ignorable
in this context. The context switching bug is not OS-dependent, but
varys in severity acro
Hi List,
I have a Dual-Xeon 3Ghz System with with GB RAM and an Adaptec 212ß SCSI
RAID with 4 SCA Harddiscs. Our customer wants to have the Machine tuned
for best Database performance. Which OS should we used? We are tending
between Linux 2.6 or FreeBSD. The Database Size is 5GB and ascending.
Mos