Here are some hard examples to help: It is certainly usable on an old PC eg 200MHz Pentium 2 with linux and 32Mb RAM. Obviously the performance will be proportional to the hardware, but MySql is designed to be able to run on low level hardware. If you just want to play around with the database, or run a moderate database with only a few tens of thousands of rows in a few tables, this would be fine.
You can get excellent good performance from a 500MHz Pentium 3, if you're prepared to spend a small amount of money on extra memory. I've got a database with 55 million rows in one table and it runs fine on my P3 833MHz laptop with 512Mb RAM when I'm doing development. If you were buying new hardware for a commercial deployment, I'd recommend linux on a server style machine with more than one disk, 3GHz Pentium 4/Xeon and 1Gb RAM. I've just bought such a machine for 1200 UKP from Dell, which is a serious machine for the money, such that it's hardly worth buying anything less for most commercial deployments. Move down the list according to your budget! Hope this helps, Andy > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Kendrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10 October 2003 00:25 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [mysql] MYSQL > > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 12:00:51PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > PLEASE, I'M A STUDENT AND I?D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT IS THE > RECOMMENDED HARDWARE > > CONFIGURATION TO RUN MYSQL SERVER. THANKS. > > I think this depends on how big the database will be, how much it will be > hit, etc!!! > > I've heard of MySQL being run on the 200MHz StrongARM based Sharp Zaurus > with only 32MB of RAM and 32MB of 'disk' space. :^) I doubt that could > handle a popular e-commerce site, though. > > Let us know what you think the strain might be on the database itself, > and folks here will no doubt have some suggestions of the kind of iron > that can handle it. > > Good luck! > > -bill! > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got kids? > Get Tux Paint! > http://newbreedsoftware.com/bill/ > http://newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/ > > > -- > 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]
