I'm surprised there is not more interest in this; is it that not many work with large-ish (10+ gig) databases that need high-end performance?
A 64-bit CPU won't have the 4-gig memory limit that a 32-bit processor will; even worse, Linux is apparently limited to about a 2-gig process. SuSe Enterprise Linux supports 512-gigabyte processes with 16 processors. Imagine 10 gigabyte database all in memory. Even better, larger file sizes - no more 2-gig files. Max file size is 9-Exabytes ( "9" followed by 18 "0's" ). All the posts I see about people trying to get around the 2 gig file limit should be really excitied. I guess I'm just surprised by lack of interest. I've been bugging our CTO once a week about this, and hopefully should have a server on my desk by mid summer to late fall. If you're interested, SuSe has a good PDF on AMD64 and SuSe Enterprise Linux 1.0: http://www.suse.com/en/business/products/server/sles/misc/sles8_amd64.pdf Anyone have some practical experience with the software and hardware? David. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
