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DN >In the last episode (Apr 04), JW said:
DN >Heh. plus the maintenence nightmare of managing 48 servers, 96 mirrored
DN >boot disks, 96 power supplies, etc etc..
DN >
DN >A comparable system to the Dell link you pasted is the Sun Fire v880.
DN >For $120k, you get 8x750mhz Ultrasparc III CPUs, 32GB of RAM, and 12
DN >36gb fibrechannel disks. Those are 64-bit CPUs with 8MB of cache
DN >(compared to the 32bit Xeons w/2M you'd get with the Dell), and should
DN >easily outperform the Dell box.
DN >
DN >http://store.sun.com/catalog/doc/BrowsePage.jhtml?cid=71713
I was already looking at these... Does anyone have any experience with MySQL a v880?
Someone on another list was saying:
"ou've got to remember that in a lot of scenerios, more processors can
degrade preformance instead of enhancing it. 4 Dual processing machines
always beats one 8-way machine as far as network services related things
like File/Web/Print serving. 4-way machines can add benefit in fine-grain
tightly coupled processes like a heavily threaded DB server (like Oracle).
You start to loose I/O performance with most x86 architectures after 4-way."
What do ya'll say to that? Does MySQL performance really go down with more processors?
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Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com
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