Jeremy Zawodny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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).
Somewhere in this list I've seen controversial reports about FreeBSD/amd64. Seems like it's not yet stable and may give unpredictable performance behaviour, no? What's your opinion? -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Egor Egorov / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]