On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 03:02:09PM -0500, Michael T. Babcock wrote: > Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > > >>A very good suggestion indeed (IMHO); replication for performance in > >>this way is probably very under-utilized. I wonder if Slashdot is > >>doing it yet? > >> > >> > > > >They've been using Replication for a long time at Slashdot. > > That's not actually what I asked; I asked if they were running the > replication servers on the web servers to act as a query cache ... as > opposed to replication between strictly sql servers.
No, they're doing it for different reasons. One is that they want to use full-text search but 98% of their data is in InnoDB. So I believe they have a slave with MyISAM that they can then run searches against. My info might be a bit dated, but that's what used to happen. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 3.23.51: up 86 days, processed 1,815,607,517 queries (242/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
