Also, out of curiosity, who was your vendor for the opteron? Brian
-----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Zawodny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 2:21 PM To: Donny Simonton Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Miles Keaton' Subject: Re: best-performing CPU + platform for MySQL now? Opteron? OpenBSD? SuSE? 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] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
