MySQL released this a few weeks ago. http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/press-release/release_2004_27.html
As far as personal benchmarks, it's fast. Real fast. With a quad Xeon (which was more expensive than the quad opteron) our master server had a normal load of 2-3. With the the quad opteron it's less than .25. Donny > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Abbott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 4:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Donny Simonton' > Cc: 'Miles Keaton' > Subject: RE: best-performing CPU + platform for MySQL now? Opteron? > OpenBSD? SuSE? > > Do you guys have metrics on this that you would be willing to share? We > are looking at upgrading to the Opteron (from the Xeon) at the moment. > Any information would be very helpful. > > Brian Abbott > > -----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]
