On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 14:03 -0400, Justin McAleer wrote: > Timo Sirainen wrote: > > I thought I'd try benchmarking with dbmail (v2.2.4) to see how much > > slower a SQL backend could actually be. Skip to bottom for the > > conclusions. > > > > Originally I ran the tests with the databases being in XFS filesystem. > > MySQL's performance was horrible. It went 3-7x faster with ext3. > > > > > > Timo, what was the hardware you used for this test?
Intel Core 2 6600, 2GB 800MHz memory, Asus P5B, 300GB PATA Seagate disk with XFS filesystem, ext3 created as a 1GB file inside XFS (once I get another disk I'll move to ext3 completely).
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