From: Johan De Meersman Date: April 22 2010 7:12am Subject: Re: More CPU or More RAM? List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/221366 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001636c5a39decb4730484ce06a9 --001636c5a39decb4730484ce06a9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:52 PM, shamubro@stripped wrote: > replacement etc, but that costs me too much if I can use hardware to solve > the same problem. and Yes I know I will run to same problem again when the > It may be that you can't actually solve it with more hardware. The version of drupal we were using (we've built a highly customised one by now) had the annoying tendency to explicitly lock tables, even when not strictly necessary. A lock is a lock, regardless of how much hardware you throw against it. -- Bier met grenadyn Is als mosterd by den wyn Sy die't drinkt, is eene kwezel Hy die't drinkt, is ras een ezel --001636c5a39decb4730484ce06a9--