June 18, 2013

Comment: PBXT benchmarks

… the figures showing the performance details. Do you ever use FreeBSD for MySQL benchmarks? To my dismay, I noticed that the… 100 CUC on my 1Gb RAM pentium 4 box running FreeBSD 6.2. I went through the Performance Tuning tips found…

Comment: To UUID or not to UUID ?

… have also seen these ones comparing MySQL in Linux and FreeBSD: http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/6268.html Now it seems… in MySQL or in Linux, since MySQL scales fine in FreeBSD. Well, it seems that finally the problem has been identified…

Comment: Quick look at Ubuntu 6.06

… continuing my experiments with different OS and today I tested FreeBSD 6.0 on my box. (more details about box and…-look-at-ubuntu-606/). Initially I was very pessimistic about FreeBSD, as results were (in transactions/sec, more is better. for…

Comment: Adventures in archiving

Great article. Don’t forget to mention the drawback about Archive that it’s not transactional. What about ZFS compression (for example on FreeBSD) or other filesystem compression options?

Post: Percona and the MariaDB Foundation

… source projects, such as Apache Software Foundation, Linux Foundation or FreeBSD Foundation. A Foundation structure shows to the world there is…

Comment: What's the recommended MySQL version?

… upgraded mysql 5.0.90 to 5.5.20, on FreeBSD 8.1. All of the databases have MyISAM tables. I…

Comment: Which Linux distribution for a MySQL database server? A specific point of view.

…Daniël van Eeden: Threading issues with FreeBSD + MySQL are old story and since Linux and MySQL should …

Comment: Which Linux distribution for a MySQL database server? A specific point of view.

What about FreeBSD ? You have the choice between all versions, compiling is simple as “make install” in ports…

Comment: What's the recommended MySQL version?

I’ve seen this server failure mentioned a couple of times; any ETA on when FreeBSD builds will be back up? Alternatively, it seems like it might be easier to just maintain a port than rebuilding for each new release…

Comment: What's the recommended MySQL version?

If the FreeBSD builds that used to be there are actually gone, it’s because we are rebuilding them after a server failed (see past blog posts for more on this).