From: Date: September 18 2004 12:15am
Subject: Re: best-performing CPU + platform for MySQL now? Opteron? OpenBSD? SuSE?
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 04:01:53PM +0300, Egor Egorov wrote:
> 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? 

Agreed.  FreeBSD's production release is 4.10.  The 5.x tree is still
a work in progress, much like MySQL 4.1.

Jeremy
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