Re: [PERFORM] OS desicion

2004-10-21 Thread Jim C. Nasby
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

Re: [PERFORM] OS desicion

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Clark
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

Re: [PERFORM] OS desicion

2004-10-20 Thread Josh Berkus
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

Re: [PERFORM] OS desicion

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Clark
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

[PERFORM] OS desicion

2004-10-20 Thread Tom Fischer
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