Hi Nico, I've cc'd webstack-discuss, as that's the project which does the integration of components like MySQL into OpenSolaris. It's probably best to discuss this there.
More below... Nico Sabbi wrote: > On Tuesday 13 January 2009 11:28:54 Nico Sabbi wrote: > >> As for $subject: I can't imagine an application that requires 64 >> bit more than a db, but unfortunately the version pkg installs is >> 32-bits only. >> >> > > uhm, sorry I have to backtrack. I've read just now that it's possible > to configure the 64bit mode with > > $ svccfg -s svc:/application/database/mysql:version_50 setprop > enable_64bit = boolean: true > > $ svcadm refresh mysql > > $ svcadm restart mysql > > but it would have been nice enabling it by default on a 64bit > installation :) Correct. With other components, notably Apache/PHP, we'd decided to keep 64-bit an SMF configurable option since it's possible/likely that 3rd party extensions people may add through pecl/apxs could not be 64-bit clean. You have a good argument for MySQL *if* using the InnoDB query cache. It's still pretty common though for people to rely on the filesystem for caching (and ZFS should do well for this type of configuration) for a variety of reasons. I'm not sure what the right approach is, but maybe one of my colleagues on webstack-discuss has thought about this already. I'd imagine we can do this from the service... perhaps pre-deliver it with an enable_64bit set to "auto" (which would mean it can't be a boolean any longer) and use /usr/lib/isaexec within the service? - Matt
