* Xin LI (delphij_at_frontfree.net) wrote: > Some observations that I think can affect MySQL performance: > - Our malloc(3) implementation might be sub-optimal for the workload. I've tried linking MySQL against some of the alternatives in ports. I must be missing something since I could never make it do more than start up and lock up. > - Lack of some POSIX system call which was implemented in other ways > (e.g. we do not have fsyncdata yet) > - Some detailed implementation difference between our and Linux's > threading library, or MySQL itself. Terry posted an interesting comment on /. giving some reasonable sounding suggestions as to why MySQL's performance is so pessimised on FreeBSD (and others): http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=162629&tid=7&cid=13611424 -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst http://hur.st/
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