Hello, currently I run mysql 3.x on Mac OS X 10.3. I have about as much ram in the machine as I can, and have tunes it the best I can, however, I still see the performance drop pretty badly at times.
After reading this: <http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436> I suspect OS X is just not going to cut it. I have a few years in a shell on OS X, but that's about it, I can get around, compile stuff, etc, but I am in no way a master. Part of me leans on getting into x86 BSD of some sort, so at least I am more comfortable with it as it is going to be similar to OS X. However, if someone can tell me a good Linux distro to go with, I will use that. Mainly, I would like to know what hardware to be looking at, something in the rack mount style, a 1U would be nice. Bigger if need be. I probably will have two hard drives, set as a mirror, or just use psync or rsync to clone one to the other. Loosing a few hours worth of data is not a huge deal for the few hundred sites this machine will serve. However, I do need the hardware to be able to handle something like getting slashdotted. I am on a 100Mbit pipe, its not a burstable one, full blown, MRTG tells me it is loaded about 2% or so, so I am rarely heating it up. I don't think bandwidth is my bottleneck. I may want to go SCSI, but I am not sure. I have about 2000.00 to drop into this, and want a machine to to apache and mysql that will hold its own as best as possible. Do I just go to dell.com and get what they have, or do you all have better stuff to recommend? If I have left out anything, please let me know, I will be sure to reply. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 <http://www.newgeo.com> Novato, CA U.S.A. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
