bad corn wrote:
I use Gentoo ( stable ) for our server here.Hi all, Recently our company has purchased a dual amd64 opteron machine for mysql server purpose. It seems that there are not many os choices for us.Here is the list of OS that we are going to test (in listed order): - debian (amd64) - fedora2 (amd64) - suse (amd64 or 32bit mode) - solaris9 (32bit x86 mode) - debian (32bit mode) FreeBSD is temporary not on our list because I have done some simple testing on FreeBSD/AMD64, and it was a nightmare... unfortunately we didn't have time to conduct the thing more thoroughly so we gave it up. We don't want to run freebsd in 32bit mode + linuxthreads. Debian is our first choice, but on the Debian/AMD64 howto, it is stated that the port is still in beta stage. Does anyone have experiences with debian/amd64 + mysql? I would love to know if mysql will run on it before giving it a try.. Here are the questions that I have: 1) What is the reason that mysql doc suggest people to use SuSE? I believe it is the kernel and libc that matters, but it seemed to me that most of the mysql/amd64 development and benchmarks are carried out on SuSE, RedHat or their derivatives. 2) Whether the distro has thousands of applications is not relevant to us, because we will be running mysqld on the box only. 3) Perhaps if anyone on this list would suggest me stick to 32bit os at the moment? Personally speaking, I don't like RedHat and SuSE (sorry but I am not here to start a distro war :)), so I would like to stay away from them as much as possible. Plus I have no experience with them at all. Besides, I heard from someone that Solaris10 will be quite good for MySQL purpose, could anyone comment on this? And if it is really good, does anyone know when is it going to be available to the public? Even beta releases are ok. I am new to the AMD64 world, and so I would love to hear from all of you. Thanks all :) Cheers, mc. It's just an Athlon 2000XP, so I can't comment on 64-bit support for Gentoo, but I know that there are a *lot* of people using it. Check out the Gentoo forums. Reasons why you should choose Gentoo? Upgradability. As you probably know, not all software is perfectly supported on x86-64 under Linux at the moment. This includes glibc, gcc, binutils, etc. There are always patches coming in. If you run Gentoo, you have *incredibly* painless updates to ALL parts of your system. If you run anything else and you try to upgrade glibc, for example, you are a damned fool! So basically you can install Gentoo on your system and keep it current without re-installing everything. --
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