On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Mike Jakubik wrote:
I am in the process of implementing a fairly large mysql server
for an even larger company, and naturally i want to use FreeBSD.
The hardware will be an HP DL385, 2 x dual-core Opterons, 16GB
RAM, 7 x 15k rpm disks in a RAID5 setup. I'm not exactly informed
as to the specific workload yet, however i know the database will
have several million rows and be larger than 10GB.
So, first of all, am i crazy for choosing fbsd+mysql for this
rather than something like Solaris + Oracle? :)
Moderately...it kinda depends on the budget available. I regard
Solaris + Oracle as one of the most reliable combinations for
moderate to extreme load, for a system that might well be in
operation for five to ten years. If I was going to do FreeBSD, I
might look into Postgres instead of MySQL; well, I might look into
something else than MySQL under many circumstances. I've gotten some
pretty good use out of OpenBase, for another choice.
As for the disk configuration, using RAID-5 is one of the worst
possible choices for a database; using multiple RAID-1 mirrors or a
RAID-10 config would probably do a lot better in terms of performance
and reliability.
--
-Chuck
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