On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 15:43 -0700, Max Kanat-Alexander wrote: > Owen Taylor wrote: > > I've gone ahead and set up MySQL on drawable.gnome.org. > > It's probably too late, and I'm not sure it matters, but high-end MySQL > installations apparently frequently get some benefit from running on XFS > instead of ext3.
Not too late, but XFS is definitely on the wrong side of the what-I'm-comfortable with vs. what-might-be-fast tradeoff. And I have a lot more faith that ext3 gets solid testing in the RHEL kernels. > > mysqldump > > gzip'ed mysqldump is suprisingly reasonable for snapshotting > > mysqldump is what Mozilla does. It certainly is the straightforward option. We can try that, and if we start having problems (say, the mysqldump read locks start causing updates to fail for an hour), consider alternatives. - Owen _______________________________________________ gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
