I'd be interested to see what happens when MySQL gets run on a G5.  
SPECint and SPECfp numbers look very good.  there is an 8GB RAM limit on 
it, though.

Curtis

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Jeremy Zawodny wrote:

> 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
> 

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