Hello MC, any results yet by any chance ? What conclusion did you get out of your test ?
There is another threat going on with the subject line "Re: best-performing CPU + platform for MySQL now? Opteron? OpenBSD? SuSE?" Best regards Nils Valentin Tokyo/Japan On Tuesday 27 July 2004 12:39, bad corn wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently our company has purchased a dual amd64 opteron machine for mysql > server purpose. > It seems that there are not many os choices for us. > > Here is the list of OS that we are going to test (in listed order): > - debian (amd64) > - fedora2 (amd64) > - suse (amd64 or 32bit mode) > - solaris9 (32bit x86 mode) > - debian (32bit mode) > > FreeBSD is temporary not on our list because I have done some simple > testing on FreeBSD/AMD64, and it was a nightmare... unfortunately we didn't > have time to conduct the thing more thoroughly so we gave it up. We don't > want to run freebsd in 32bit mode + linuxthreads. > > Debian is our first choice, but on the Debian/AMD64 howto, it is stated > that the port is still in beta stage. Does anyone have experiences with > debian/amd64 + mysql? I would love to know if mysql will run on it before > giving it a try.. > > Here are the questions that I have: > 1) What is the reason that mysql doc suggest people to use SuSE? I believe > it is the kernel and libc that matters, but it seemed to me that most of > the mysql/amd64 development and benchmarks are carried out on SuSE, RedHat > or their derivatives. > 2) Whether the distro has thousands of applications is not relevant to us, > because we will be running mysqld on the box only. > 3) Perhaps if anyone on this list would suggest me stick to 32bit os at the > moment? > > Personally speaking, I don't like RedHat and SuSE (sorry but I am not here > to start a distro war :)), so I would like to stay away from them as much > as possible. Plus I have no experience with them at all. > > Besides, I heard from someone that Solaris10 will be quite good for MySQL > purpose, could anyone comment on this? And if it is really good, does > anyone know when is it going to be available to the public? Even beta > releases are ok. > > I am new to the AMD64 world, and so I would love to hear from all of you. > Thanks all :) > > Cheers, > mc. -- kind regards Nils Valentin Tokyo/Japan http://www.be-known-online.com/mysql/ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
