On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 03:05:07PM -0500, Donny Simonton wrote: > > I can verify that a quad opteron 2.2 runs about a million times > better than a quad xeon 3.06. The opteron can handle more than 3 > gigs of memory which is a 32 bit limitation. Right now in my quad > opteron we have 32 gigs of memory and MySQL is using 16.8 gigs of > the memory. > > We run fedora core 2, with the rpm built by MySQL. We don't run anything > else any longer.
And we've had good but limited experiences so far with 64 bit FreeBSD 5 on amd64 (also a quad w/32GB). 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]