Jesse Vincent <je...@bestpractical.com> wrote:
>At 8 gigs of RAM on a well-tuned system, most of what RT is pulling out
>of the database should always be cached in memory. If MySQL is going to
>disk on every query, the game's over and you're better off sobbing
>quietly into a stiff drink than getting faster disks.
True, but the database server might have many other busy databases as well,
not just RT's ;-)
I'm definitely not an expert on how mysql utilizes system memory, but on
32-bit Linux systems, isn't the max amount of memory a single process can
use 2 GB? Can it even take advantage of the extra 6 GB?
James
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