Journal Nevyn's Journal: Fools Friday? 1
So, I'm not sure if this is all tomhudsons fault
Exibit A, so we're going to do a "DB benchmark" to see how well the different OSes compare to each other. Ok, I can buy that
However, when running a "real world" test on different OSes it seems like crack to install an upstream MySQL tarball
And then to give a "methodology" that says:
I installed each operating system "stock" -- with default options -- and recompiled a kernel here and there when necessary, to add, for instance, SMP support in FreeBSD or increase memory allocation limits. For the most part, I didn't do any special OS tweaking beyond what was specifically recommended for MySQL. Any changes to the OS I made are documented in their respective sections below.
Oh, a recompile "here and there" and some random MySQL tweaking that doesn't appear to be documented and for the "non-special OS tweaking in Linux":
I ended up going with Gentoo 2004.3
... With Gentoo it was also relatively easy to install NPTL for 2.6 ... (although they [ed: NPTL] didn't make any difference) ... For these tests, I chose ReiserFS version 3.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Ahhh, I have to laugh or I'll cry.
so it is, as it has always been, as it shall be (Score:2)
Have you noticed that sometimes the duplicates get the best S/N ratio in the comments? I think it's because the people who spent the time to slog through the original comments are prompted to post a summary of their recollections, and they often touch on most of the points that caused the original's comments to get highly rated, along with some of the detailed