> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Whalin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 3:12 PM > To: Dathan Pattishall > Cc: Jochem van Dieten; mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: Opteron HOWTO?! > > Care to share any secrets? You guys are running Suse w/ 2.4 > kernel yes?
Yes. We run RedHat with a Suse Kernel and pure Suse. > Any specifics as far as kernel/glibc/gcc versions. Kernel - 2.4.21-215-default #5 SMP Glibc - rpm -qa |grep glib glibc-profile-2.3.2-95.6 glibc-2.3.2-95.20 glibc-headers-2.3.2-95.6 glib2-2.2.3-2.0 glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.34 glibc-devel-2.3.2-95.6 glibc-common-2.3.2-95.20 glibc-devel-2.3.2-95.6 glib-1.2.10-11.1 glibc-utils-2.3.2-95.6 glib-1.2.10-11.1 glibc-2.3.2-95.6 Gcc - gcc3.3 > Are you running mysql 4.1.*? Yes > Are you using NPTL? No that sucks we use the other one. Can't make a static build with NPTL. > You using the > binary from mysql, or building yourself? I build it myself using gcc3.3 - 3.4 will crash mysql using -O of any level. > Are you running > Innodb or Myisam. Both You mentioned reiserfs correct? Any > problems w/ ext3? You can't use O_DIRECT on ext3 and 2.4 there is a bug in EXT3 when used under heavy load the volume will lock. > > > Thanks, > Greg > > Dathan Pattishall wrote: > >>Subject: Re: Opteron HOWTO?! > >> > >>On 5/9/05, Kevin Burton wrote: > >> > >>>So... it sounds like a lot of people here (Dathan and Greg) > >> > >>have had > >> > >>>problems deploying MySQL on Opteron in a production environment. > >> > >>To me it sounds more like a lot of people have had problems running > >>Linux on x86-64 systems. > >> > > > > > > We don't have any problems running Opterons at all. > > With all the tests me and my team have done, we know the > ins and outs > > of getting Opterons up, running-stable, and blazing fast. > Our entire > > datacenter are (about 200 servers) > > > > Dual Opterons with at least 4GB of memory running in 64-bit mode. > > > > All the databases (about 30) > > - Are dual opterons with 8 GB of memory connected to a > Hitachi 9980 > > SAN-through a McData Switch. > > > > We do about 70K qps at peak for about 1 Billion Queries per > day (only > > on 30 servers BOOYA). So, it's pretty stable. > > > > > > -- > > > > Dathan V Pattishall > > Sr. Database Engineer / Sr. Software Engineer Friendster Inc. > > > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
