Thanks for all the recommendations.
On 8/22/06 1:11 PM, "Dan Buettner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I second what James recommends re: spindles and RAID 10. Better than > RAID 5 for live data in my opinion; RAID 5 is decent for archival > storage. > > You've got a pretty decent setup there otherwise - 4 CPU cores, 8 GB > RAM - and you want to make sure your disks can keep things fed. > > As far as splitting things up: a general recommendation is to put > logging (replication logging that is, not the error log necessarily) > onto its own partition, ideally its own disks. Also consider putting > MySQL's temp space on its own partition, ideally its own disks. Of > course suddenly you're looking at a lot of disks if you really go > whole-hog... > > The optimization section in the online manual is pretty decent, though > some of the numbers are a bit dated (I saw one note this morning that > said "if you have at least 256 MB RAM"...) Also Jeremy Zawodny's book > "High Performance MySQL" is a good read, both in terms of optimizing > your SQL/data strcuture and in choosing abnd setting up your hardware. > > (Third time today I've plugged that book - I don't own stock or > anything, really) > > Dan > > > On 8/22/06, JamesDR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> David Lazo wrote: >>> We want to get: >>> >>> Windows Server 2003 R2, Standard x64 Edition >>> 2- Dual Core Intel Xeon 5080, 2x2MB Cache, 3.73GHz, 1066MHz FSB >>> 8GB 533MHz (8x1GB), Dual Ranked DIMMs >>> 3- 146GB, SAS, 3.5-inch, 15K RPM Hard Drives >>> >>> What would be the recommended RAID configuration settings for a dedicated >>> MySQL db running on this system? >>> Also, what is the general advice for separating MySQL and the MySQL/Data on >>> different disks? >>> >>> I'm sorry if this sort of question has already been answered. >>> >>> Any help would be appreciated. >>> >>> David. >>> >>> >>> >> >> We built one pretty close to this recently. You definitely want to go >> with raid10, make sure the controller is hardware and not software raid >> (uses the CPU for everything, opposed to having a dedicated on board CPU) >> >> The more spindles the better, in order to use RAID10 you need an even >> set of disks, min 4. Raid10 gives you the best performance while keeping >> data redundancy. I would set it up like this: >> Raid1 -- OS (you could use slower/smaller drives here) >> Raid10 -- all of the mysql data -- as many spindles as you can afford. >> If you have to swap out 73GB drives for for the 146's to get more >> spindles, I would do that (that would increase cost a bit, but the disk >> sub system here would be the bottle neck, so you want to have it as fast >> as you can get it -- and still be affordable) >> >> This all depends on what your data environment looks like as well. >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> James >> >> >> -- >> MySQL General Mailing List >> For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql >> To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
