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

[Brian Abbott]

Also, out of curiosity, who was your vendor for the opteron? 

Brian

-----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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