Anandtech has an interesting article
(http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2447) on hardware for Linux
database servers.
Some very interesting conclusions:
1) Moving to 64-bit MySQL on a 64-bit Xeon actually decreases
performance by about 12% on average, while an Opteron running 64-bit
MySQL gets a 32% performance increase.
2) Innodb scales better (obviously)
3) A server with one CPU that has a dual-core Opteron (the X2 CPUs) is
faster than a server with two single-core CPUs.
4) SuSE SLES 9.1 outperforms Gentoo by about 12%
I would take Anandtech with a grain of salt - this isn't what they
normally do, and I can't verify their benchmarking was reasonably
accurate (surprised at the disks they used - one ATA, one SCSI).
David.
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