From: Date: September 14 2004 11:21pm Subject: Re: best-performing CPU + platform for MySQL now? Opteron? OpenBSD? SuSE? List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/172610 Message-Id: <20040914142117.A86206@yahoo-inc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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! | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ [book] High Performance MySQL -- http://highperformancemysql.com/