Re: More CPU or More RAM?

[Perrin Harkins]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:14 AM, shamubro@stripped <shamubro@stripped> wrote:
> This is my current my.cnf setttings. Could anyone take a quick peek and tell
> me if I set anything awfully wrong?

If your tables are MyISAM (not InnoDB), then 128MB is much too small
for your key_buffer.  You should look at the sample my.cnf files that
come in the mysql documentation.  Those will give you a better
starting point.

And to answer your original question, in general, RAM is more useful
than anything else for a database.  Whatever is using your CPU might
be work that could be pushed off to your web layer, but the data
access can't be.

- Perrin