Announce our progress on optimizing FreeBSD 7.0 for MySQL running an

8-core system.

Submitted by:	kris
Discussed with:	jhb, rwatson

share/sgml/news.xml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 <news>
   <cvs:keywords xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS" version="1.0">
     <cvs:keyword name="freebsd">
-      $FreeBSD: www/share/sgml/news.xml,v 1.55 2007/02/28 10:49:05 brueffer Exp $
+      $FreeBSD: www/share/sgml/news.xml,v 1.56 2007/03/07 09:00:59 brueffer Exp $
     </cvs:keyword>
   </cvs:keywords>
 
@@ -28,6 +28,20 @@
     <name>2007</name>
     <month>
       <name>3</name>
+      <day>
+	<name>10</name>
+	<event>
+	  <title>Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems</title>
+
+	  <p>Recently there has been significant progress on optimizing
+	    FreeBSD 7.0 for MySQL running an 8-core amd64 system.  Under the
+	    test workload FreeBSD has peak performance consistent with Linux,
+	    and outperforms it by a factor of 4 under higher loads.  Continue
+	    reading for a more <a
+	      href="http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/mysql.html">detailed
+	    report here.</a></p>
+	</event>
+      </day>
 
       <day>
 	<name>7</name>