At 2:28 PM -0500 11/16/99, Curtis Maurand wrote:
>On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Richard McLean wrote:
>> At 6:23 PM +0200 16/11/99, <sinisa@stripped> wrote:
>> >Richard McLean writes:
>> > > Just wondering if anyone has benchmarked MySQL performance on the
>> > > different chips and can compare them for speed?
>> > >
>> > > Intel / Athlon / G3 and G4 / Others
>> >
>> >
>> >You can find many of those comparisons on mysql benchmark pages.
>> >
>> >I would like to see performance on G4 !!
>>
>>
>> Me too! The benchmarks sections covers the traditional chips
>> (Pentium/AMD/Sparc) but doesn't cover the newer ones (Athlon/G4),
>> that's why I thought I'd ask. :-)
>>
>
>Its pretty hard to get benchmarks on Athlon since they're not available yet.
>Doesn't the G4 comes with MAC OS-X? Has anyone gotten MySQL to run on OS-X?
>Has anyone gotten Linux for the PowerPC to run on the G4?
re: G4
Yes, it compiles from source with no problem. This works assuming you have
the 400MHz (original G4) or 350MHz (speed-un-bumped G4), because those have
the Yosemite motherboard. LinuxPPC doesn't run on the newer Sawtooth
motherboards
yet.
My experience running MySQL on a G4: in the configurations I name above, the
disk is IDE. The processor runs really quickly (sorry no numbers close at
hand), but when you get into heavy I/O you have problems. The machine itself
becomes somewhat sluggish, which I attribute to I/O. This is also the case
on IDE G3's, and it is also true for 300MHz/400MHz G3 PowerBooks. I've
put LinuxPPC on a 350MHz G3 now and put a SCSI drive it in, because I want to
see if that makes a difference. Informally it seems to, but I don't have
any numbers right now to know for sure.
Anyway, yeah, MySQL on a G3/G4 running LinuxPPC is quite doable.
--
Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
