On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:37:24PM -0400, Curtis Maurand wrote: > > Linux compiled on an opteron and targeted for it will lose the 2-gig > process limit. the 2-gig number is based on a 32 bit integer. You now > would a have 64 bit integer (5 Quintillion as an unsigned integer. :-)). > > Imagine the 10GB database in memory, plus the temp and heap tables and the > indexes. Lets not forget about the ability to have large heap tables, > too. Life gets very interesting in the 64 bit space, especially since > IA64's aren't exactly plentiful. As soon as I can afford one, I'm buying > one. I'm very interesting.
Yeah, the operton should kick major ass with MySQL and sufficient memory. :-) Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 4.0.13: up 21 days, processed 675,596,767 queries (361/sec. avg) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
