As you've probably read in the article, the hardware isn't too bad,
it's OS X that is slowing things down.
I would first go the free route. Download YellowDog Linux and install
that on your current Mac hardware. That will give you a big boost
when the load starts to climb. I've installed YellowDog on an old Mac
(350Mhz) and it was pretty painless. If you can get around in the
terminal on the Mac, you should do fine under Linux.
If you do go the new hardware route, I wouldn't go with SCSI is you
only have $2K to spend. S-ATA2 based drives would give you similar
performance to SCSI, but at a big cost savings. SCSI's big
performance advantage was in command queueing which SATA2 drives now
have.
Dell? No, I wouldn't buy Dell. Simply because they don't sell AMD
based systems. The dual core AMD chips with the built-in memory
controller are very nice.
On Sep 7, 2005, at 2:09 AM, Scott Haneda wrote:
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.
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