On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 12:48:37PM -0700, Miles Keaton wrote: > If my company wants to get the best-performing fastest platform for a > MySQL server, what would it be these days? Opteron? Dual? Quad? > > And on a related note... > > If a 64-bit CPU, then I'm assuming it would need an operating system > designed for that 64-bit CPU, to get best performance, right? > > I know that OpenBSD has an amd64 version and that the OpenBSD > developers seem to say that Opteron is their favorite (and > most-currently-developed) CPU. I've used OpenBSD in the past and > like it a lot. > > Is anyone here using MySQL on OpenBSD+Opteron in a high-load situation?
MySQL works quite well on Opteron machines. However, OpenBSD is a poor platform choice for running MySQL. It's known to run much better on FreeBSD or Linux (depending on your particular preference). Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ [book] High Performance MySQL -- http://highperformancemysql.com/ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
