Jeremy Zawodny wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:07:07PM +0100, Basil Hussain wrote:
> >
> > I'm quite surprised that this level of performance is available from
> > such standard (well, not standard as in 'common', but y'know what I
> > mean...)  hardware. The last I heard, 1K+ queries/sec was only being
> > done on extremely high-end Sun enterprise-level machines.
> 
> Yeah, they *were* almost all read queries...
> 
> > On the other hand though, it gives me some comfort that the hardware
> > being used in my operation will meet any future needs. We have
> > similar spec servers (P3-1Ghz dual-cpu, 512Mb RAM, 3x36Gb SCSI
> > RAID5). Maybe I should try out mysql-super-smack and see what kind
> > of numbers it turns up. :-)
> 
> It would be interesting.
> 
> We've just finished some upgrades here (thus the recent low uptimes in
> my signature).  Brought out Linux boxes up to 2.4.9 and 2GB of RAM.
> Had a lot of problems with 2.4.9's brain-dead VM subsystem, so I
> disabled swap and things are A LOT better now.

Could you provide more details about the problems with 2.4.9's VM and
how and why you disabled swap?

> 
> We're on ReiserFS now and have software RAID running on one box to
> test it out.
> 
> Jeremy
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