Similar hardware, Same DBconfiguration and Database but different status variables result between Windows and Linux server I have two database servers - one is Windows - 2008 and another is RHEL5 with similar hardware configuration. Both OS are 64 bit.

MySQL 5.1.58 community edition is installed on Windows servers while MySQL 5.1.73 is installed on Oracle Linux. Same database is installed on both servers - i..e same number of tables with same data.
At a time, if I run `show global status like 'Qcache%' on both servers and below is the comparison result:

Status variables       Linux           Windows
Qcache_free_blocks     24              54301
Qcache_free_memory     53025440        151737216
Qcache_hits            162509          44648032
Qcache_inserts         33073           6866308
Qcache_lowmem_prunes   0               657080
Qcache_not_cached      11291            994889
Qcache_queries_in_cache 7446            112378
Qcache_total_blocks     14959           279520


Below is the result of show global variables like 'query_cache%';:

Status variables                Linux        Windows
query_cache_limit               2097152      4194304         
query_cache_min_res_unit        1024         4096
query_cache_size                67108864     367001600   
query_cache_type                ON           ON
query_cache_wlock_invalidate    OFF          OFF



Why is there huge differences? 
Also, In Linux, Qcache_free_blocks is only 3 while Qcache_free_memory is about 53MB?
Since you started both servers, you have executed (approximately) 162509 + 33073 + 11291 = 206,873 queries on the Linux server and 44648032 + 6866308 + 994889 = 52,509,229 queries on Windows. Why would you expect similar numbers when one has done more work than the other?

The ratios, however, are similar with:

162509 / (162509 + 33073) ~= 83%
44648032 / (44648032 + 6866308) ~=87%


80-90% ratio of query cache hits. You should only compare statistics over the same period of time, for example, by using pt-mext -- mysqladmin ext

In order to answer specific questions about size, you should provide the output of SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES like 'query_cache%'; and if the OSs and mysql versions are 32 or 64 bits.

UPDATE: You have complete different configuration on Linux and Windows, window's query cache is 30x larger. Why would you expect equal or similar statistics from both, when you are not even executing the same queries? I do not understand why you are surprised that you get different "numbers" when you input different ones: free blocks is the amount of blocks that are not in use by query results. The Windows one is not yet full, or it has deallocated more than the Linux one.