Lord yea... don't get me wrong it would be nice.. but I'd start with say 1GB based on what your doing now.. just make sure the server has lots of slots open for future upgrades if required. (don't let them stick in 256MB sticks taking up 4 slots).. use larger size sticks to keep slots open..
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Brad Brad wrote: > Hi, I'm looking at buying a new production server, as soon as i mentioned > mysql the Dell salesmen started pushing 3-4Gb of ram, i'm not sure if this > is excessive though. > > The OpenBSD server is 2.8Ghz and may have as many as 230 mysql sessions with > 14 queries a second, the rest will be sleeping (ftp sessions maintain > connection). The db directory is 80mb total, and the server is currently > handling 14 requests/s with all queries being simple INSERT or SELECT's. > The server also does low levels of firewall/ftp/http-perl/email. The old > server is seems quite happy with 512mb. > > Do you guys think 3-4Gb is fair or excessive for this workload? Of course i > wouldn't mind some headspace to grow. Unfortunatly i don't expect 6x > increase any time soon though :) > > Thanks :) > Brad. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Få gode tilbud direkte i din mailbox http://jatak.msn.dk > > > -- > 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]
