From: Date: September 14 2004 9:11pm
Subject: Re: best-performing CPU + platform for MySQL now? Opteron? OpenBSD? SuSE?
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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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