"Some suggestions have been to recreate the tables and indexes using the
64bit binary on the opteron system."

I'm confused - are you running the 32-bit binary, or the 64-bit binary?

David
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From: "Santiago Flores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 10:50 AM
Subject: Mysql 64 bit vs. Mysql 32bit


> Hello. We recently aquired a dual Opteron system to run mysql on. We were
> previously using a dual Athlon MP system. We have encountered the
following
> issue. We have a script that updates records in some rather large tables.
> This script runs more slowly on the opteron system than on the athlon
> system. The database was created on the athlon system an moved over. No
> tables or indexes were recreated.
> When benchmarking the two systems the opteron is much faster than the
athlon
> system. This does not seem to carry over to our updates.
>
> Ideas? We have already (and are still open to more) tweaked my.cnf from
the
> my-huge.cnf included in the Opteron binary from mysql.com (this is theirs,
> we haven't recompiled). We are running on SUSE8.2 for opteron. The opteron
> has 4GB of memory whereas the athlon had only 2GB. The tables are both on
> RAID5 on similar LSI controllers. The newer controller actually has better
> performance. Our my.cnf is included below.
>
> Any ideas on fixing this one? We really need this update query to run as
> quickly as it did on the athlon (at the very least). Some suggestions have
> been to recreate the tables and indexes using the 64bit binary on the
> opteron system. As this will take a while, would it have an effect?
Anyone?
>
> I appreciate any comments, any direction.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Santiago
>
>
>


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