While some apps will do nothing with 64bit optimizations, there are a certain few that will do amazingly better with them... MySql is one. MySql can use 64bit code/registers with greatly increased efficiency, according to their documentation and benchmarks on 64bit sparcs, etc.

My questions are, what does one do to ensure that MySql (or other code) can take full advantage of the 64bit G5's, including SMP, and can fink enable/deal with it. I can't find much info on this on Apple's site.

Also, what apps, besides MySql, will take good advantage of 64bit, and, what limitations are currently present in the current MacOSX foundation/libraries that may be an issue.


I am asking because I am moving a client's website from a single machine (LInux Dual Athlon 1900+, 3GB ram, multiple U160 drives) to a dual server setup (Panther Dual 2Ghz G5, 3GB ram currently, raptor drives, using the old machine for backup/rollover and perhaps offload some other processes like mail and serving large/non-thumbnail images).


The old system has been reaching it's load limits on a daily basis, and I am hoping the G5 will fare well with this. The site has extremely heavy use of PHP/MySql, uses Apache2/php4/mysql4 + turck-mm cache for php (hoping it can work under osx/fink).

I will save the Apache2 vs. Apache1 question for another mail. ;) (ie. would the apache2 threading enhancements work/work better with php4/mysql)

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Adam Goldstein
White Wolf Networks
http://whitewlf.net



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