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

[Brian Abbott]

Do you guys have metrics on this that you would be willing to share? We
are looking at upgrading to the Opteron (from the Xeon) at the moment.
Any information would be very helpful. 

Brian Abbott

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Zawodny [mailto:Jeremy@stripped] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 2:21 PM
To: Donny Simonton
Cc: mysql@stripped; 'Miles Keaton'
Subject: Re: best-performing CPU + platform for MySQL now? Opteron?
OpenBSD? SuSE?


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
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