So I have a question for those who understand developer speak and MySQL builds and so on...
Apple announced their new OS earlier this week, including this information on the improvements to 64 Bit version using the G5 processor: http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/64bit.html One of our biggest problems to date on our G5 servers is despite the bulk ram we have installed, the current Apple OS isn't really 64 Bit so we can't give the InnoDB caches more than 2Gb of ram, and thus there are always no empty pages. This statement from Apple stops short of saying the OS was fully 64 bit... But I think they are saying that apps such as mysqld will be able to call larger chunks of memory, which is what we want. Between MySQL's strong Apple ties and the build engineers working on MySQL binaries and the knowledgeable members of this list can anyone interpret this statement from Apple and tell us if we will be able to increase the InnoDB cache settings to take advantage of the memory in the systems? As our application uses many different databases and any application server only ever speaks to one database I am seriously considering running multiple instances of MySQL on a single machine with different databases - but it's aheadache to administer... I'd rather use my 65 bit hardware and MySQL's 64 bit builds and use the memory in the machine in a single instance... Comments welcome. Best Regards, Bruce -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
