On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 12:48:37PM -0700, Miles Keaton wrote:
> If my company wants to get the best-performing fastest platform for a
> MySQL server, what would it be these days? Opteron? Dual? Quad?
>
> And on a related note...
>
> If a 64-bit CPU, then I'm assuming it would need an operating system
> designed for that 64-bit CPU, to get best performance, right?
>
> I know that OpenBSD has an amd64 version and that the OpenBSD
> developers seem to say that Opteron is their favorite (and
> most-currently-developed) CPU. I've used OpenBSD in the past and
> like it a lot.
>
> Is anyone here using MySQL on OpenBSD+Opteron in a high-load situation?
MySQL works quite well on Opteron machines.
However, OpenBSD is a poor platform choice for running MySQL. It's
known to run much better on FreeBSD or Linux (depending on your
particular preference).
Jeremy
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