David, your response was artful, I'm going to put a "cool dude" check
next to your name in my book. :)
Did you bring in any hired guns/experts for your MySQL stuff?
I think the Dolphin is blue, that might be your problem right there! =)
We all have our strengths and weaknesses, which is pretty cool, so
more power too you for finding a solution to your problems.
I wouldn't blame a hammer for not being a good wrench, though. :)p
--
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Walt Whitman
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:44 AM, David McGuigan wrote:
>
> Oh you're totally right, I obviously had it misconfigured. I must've not
> even thought to research and implement strategic configuration of the MySQL
> instance itself. Man I wish I had thought of that in the enormous amount of
> research and testing we had to do. It sounds like such a simple, obvious
> place to start. Oh wait, that was one of the things we spent the most time
> on.
> Or no maybe you were right the second time. It had to do with my attitude.
> MySQL was particularly bad at certain types of queries because for some
> reason, that's what I believed in my heart that it would be. I guess maybe
> the purple dolphin logo triggered some kind of subliminal prejudice in my
> mind and that's what's been holding MySQL back. Hold on I'm going to go say
> a little prayer and then run them again. I'm sure that'll fix it. Thanks
> buddy!
> We iterated through a kaleidoscope of configuration strategies and were on
> more than ample hardware ( 2 xeon quads, 16GB ram, a RAID 5 of 15k drives )
> but even the ones that should've been ideal on paper, though they did
> improver performance quite a bit compared to other configurations, could not
> exempt MySQL from the fact that it is very bad at certain things.
>
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