> 1) would it be better to go brandnew with a single processor or like a quad > p4 that's a year or two old.
Depends on how your application runs. BTW, I don't think they made quad p4's. You can't run p4 chips in SMP -- they must be Xeon's. > > 2) I am going to running raid 5, so I assume that I should run scsi drives? I'd recommend getting one of the 3ware 9500 raid controllers and getting SATA drives. You'll save yourself a bundle of money. Although, don't get the WD Raptor drives -- they have a very high failure rate. You can also then run in RAID 10, which, in most cases, is faster than RAID 5. > 3) my database is not really huge, any tricks on how to determine how much > ram I need? There is a formula somewhere. It's something like shared buffers + (thread buffers * client count) + OS Disk Cache. You'd have to look up what those buffers are to get the exact count. out. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
