Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 01:34:36PM -0700, Danial Thom wrote: > Yeah, bury your head in the sand as always. > > Its been proven over and over. Robert Watson has > admitted many times that 6.x is not as fast as > 4.x uniprocessor FOR CERTAIN TASKS. Your (misquoted) claim is demonstrably false in

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-13 Thread Danial Thom
Yeah, bury your head in the sand as always. Its been proven over and over. Robert Watson has admitted many times that 6.x is not as fast as 4.x uniprocessor, but you guys still continue to claim otherwise. Clowns following clowns to the land of nowhere. Its virtually impossible to build a threa

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:20 PM 10/6/2006, Jerry Bell wrote: I have actually made the changes to my.cnf before I ran these. I expanded them quite a bit beyond what is in my-large.cnf. I need to pull them back Hi, I was just looking at this thread as its relevant to a new DB server I am trying to put tog

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:49:04AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Oct 13, 2006, at 11:26 AM, Eric Hodel wrote: > >>>Or did that change recently? > >> > >>It's only on certain systems, apparently. > > > >Is there a list of systems where it is safe to use the TSC with > >SMP? Or some script we ca

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 13, 2006, at 11:26 AM, Eric Hodel wrote: Or did that change recently? It's only on certain systems, apparently. Is there a list of systems where it is safe to use the TSC with SMP? Or some script we can run? The problem of the TSC clocks getting out of sync affects pretty much a

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-13 Thread Eric Hodel
On Oct 12, 2006, at 1:53 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:25:48AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Jerry Bell wrote: I have a Dell PE2950 with 2 dual core 3.73Ghz processors and 4G of ram. [...] changed the clock to TSC As far as I know, it is unsafe to use TSC on SMP systems.