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 across machine architectures (I understand it to be
mostly P4/Athlon related, but don't take my word for it).
M
Tom Fischer wrote:
>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.
>Most SQL-Queries are Selects, the Tablesizes are beetween 300k and up to
>10 MB. I've read the Hardware Performance Guide and the result was to
>take FreeBSD in the Decision too :)
>
>And what is on this Context Switiching Bug i have read in the Archive?
>
>Hope you can help me
>
>Regards
>
>Tom
>
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