SCSI, 15,000 RPM drives and a decent amount of memory 2-16 gigs. Dual procs definitely do help; we have tried it with dual procs with hyperthreading and without and with hyperthreading seems to be much faster.
Besides that, you can run it on any OS; we use Fedora, with Linux 2.6.x. But that's our choice. But just say no to IDE drives! Donny > -----Original Message----- > From: Chad Attermann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 3:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Best Performing Hardware/OS/MySQL? > > Hello All, > > I have been a MySQL user for some time and have always run MySQL on older > generation Sun servers running Solaris 8. I now seem to be outgrowing my > setup and I (and I'm sure others on the list) would appreciate input from > the MySQL community as to which hardware, OS, and MySQL flavor/version > combinations are best for running MySQL. I expect responses from you all > to be subjective, and that's OK. Any information about experiences by > seasoned MySQL professionals, especially those that have experiemtned with > many different combinations of hardware and OS, will save those of us > planning ahead a lot of time and grief. > > Thanks a lot in advance for your input. > > Chad Attermann > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
