Re: best-performing CPU + platform for MySQL now? Opteron? OpenBSD? SuSE?

[Jeremy Zawodny]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 03:05:07PM -0500, Donny Simonton wrote:
>
> I can verify that a quad opteron 2.2 runs about a million times
> better than a quad xeon 3.06.  The opteron can handle more than 3
> gigs of memory which is a 32 bit limitation.  Right now in my quad
> opteron we have 32 gigs of memory and MySQL is using 16.8 gigs of
> the memory.
> 
> We run fedora core 2, with the rpm built by MySQL.  We don't run anything
> else any longer.

And we've had good but limited experiences so far with 64 bit FreeBSD
5 on amd64 (also a quad w/32GB).

Jeremy
-- 
Jeremy D. Zawodny     |  Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo!
<Jeremy@stripped>  |  http://jeremy.zawodny.com/

[book] High Performance MySQL -- http://highperformancemysql.com/