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

[Egor Egorov]

Jeremy Zawodny <Jeremy@stripped> 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).

Somewhere in this list I've seen controversial reports about FreeBSD/amd64.
Seems like it's not yet stable and may give unpredictable performance
behaviour, no?

What's your opinion? 






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