Re: mysql performance?

2005-06-14 Thread Jim C. Nasby
You should take a look at the context switch rate, which is apparentnly sometimes an issue on Xeons. Switching to PostgreSQL might help too. ;P -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Wher

mysql performance?

2005-06-14 Thread Tim Spencer
Hey there! We've got a couple of fairly beefy mysql servers that just aren't operating as fast as they should be. For instance, we have a slave that is falling behind just with replication going on, even though it doesn't seem to be constrained by any system parameter that I've looke

Re: vn(4) performance on 4.11 versus md(4) on 5.4

2005-06-14 Thread Bruce Evans
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Glenn Dawson wrote: I have a number of systems running 4.11 that have file backed virtual disks, each of which contains a jail. I need to start using 5.4 for new servers. The catch is, file backed virtual disks using md(4) seem to be much slower than similar virtual disks