“It seems to be an exciting time for *nix operating systems,
with a number of them recently releasing new versions that bring
the addition of expanded features and claims of improved
performance. If you’re using GNU/Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
or Solaris as a database server, you’ve probably recently
considered an upgrade or switch to another OS in that list due to
marketing hype and hearsay. This article will show you how to
benchmark operating system performance using MySQL on these OSes so
you can find out for yourself if you’re missing out. While this may
not necessarily be indicative of overall system performance or
overall database application performance, it will tell you
specifically how well MySQL performs on your platform…”