Re: mysql scaling questions



Does anyone have a theory why syscalls are so expensive in FreeBSD? Here
are the results of unixbench 4.1 on two machines. First is the machine
running FreeBSD HEAD (debugging disabled) on a dual-core Athlon 64 (i386
mode), 2 GHz:

I ran the syscall benchmark from UnixBench on the same hardware (Intel
Q6600 @ 3.2 GHz) for both FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 (amd64) and Knoppix 5.1
(Linux 2.6.9 PREEMPT kernel, i386).

Per the comments in this thread, i386 syscalls should be less
expensive than amd64 syscalls, so the results are interesting:

FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 (amd64): System Call Overhead
15000.0 1103233.7 735.5
Knoppix Linux 2.6.9 (i686): System Call Overhead
15000.0 1108869.7 739.2

I can try to find a Linux live CD with a 2.6.x x86-64 kernel for a
valid apples-to-apples comparison, but thought these results might
provide some parity/insight.

Doesn't look like the syscalls are slower at all on FreeBSD.

Josh
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