Re: FreeBSD Scaling on 6.2-RELEASE?

2007-03-07 Thread Philipp Wuensche
Francisco Reyes wrote: > Petri Helenius writes: > >> The point in threading is that different threads can execute >> simultaneously on multiple CPU's. > > What combination of FreeBSD+Mysql will have multiple threads run by > different CPUs? > > In the few SMP FreeBSD + Mysql setups (mysql 4.X) t

Re: FreeBSD Scaling on 6.2-RELEASE?

2007-02-25 Thread Steven Hartland
Francisco Reyes wrote: What combination of FreeBSD+Mysql will have multiple threads run by different CPUs? In the few SMP FreeBSD + Mysql setups (mysql 4.X) that I have at work I only see mysql in one cpu as reported by top. We tested FreeBSD 6.2 and Mysql 5.0 I'd say the main requirement will

Re: FreeBSD Scaling on 6.2-RELEASE?

2007-02-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:16:54AM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Kris Kennaway writes: > > >Actually it will help the DB side, when you have multiple simultaneous > >transactions - that's the point :) > > A little confused. > Does this mean FreeBSD will split the threads into multiple CPUs? Ye

Re: FreeBSD Scaling on 6.2-RELEASE?

2007-02-25 Thread Steven Hartland
Francisco Reyes wrote: > What combination of FreeBSD+Mysql will have multiple threads run by > different CPUs? > > In the few SMP FreeBSD + Mysql setups (mysql 4.X) that I have at work > I only see mysql in one cpu as reported by top. I just did the tests highlighted on the thread: Progress on sc

Re: FreeBSD Scaling on 6.2-RELEASE?

2007-02-25 Thread Petri Helenius
Francisco Reyes wrote: Petri Helenius writes: The point in threading is that different threads can execute simultaneously on multiple CPU's. What combination of FreeBSD+Mysql will have multiple threads run by different CPUs? In the few SMP FreeBSD + Mysql setups (mysql 4.X) that I have at

Re: FreeBSD Scaling on 6.2-RELEASE?

2007-02-25 Thread Francisco Reyes
Petri Helenius writes: The point in threading is that different threads can execute simultaneously on multiple CPU's. What combination of FreeBSD+Mysql will have multiple threads run by different CPUs? In the few SMP FreeBSD + Mysql setups (mysql 4.X) that I have at work I only see mysql i

Re: FreeBSD Scaling on 6.2-RELEASE?

2007-02-25 Thread Petri Helenius
Francisco Reyes wrote: A little confused. Does this mean FreeBSD will split the threads into multiple CPUs? The point in threading is that different threads can execute simultaneously on multiple CPU's. Pete ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org ma

Re: FreeBSD Scaling on 6.2-RELEASE?

2007-02-25 Thread Francisco Reyes
Kris Kennaway writes: Actually it will help the DB side, when you have multiple simultaneous transactions - that's the point :) A little confused. Does this mean FreeBSD will split the threads into multiple CPUs? Or you meant the DB will do better because the load from other programs will be

Re: *****SPAM***** Re: FreeBSD Scaling on 6.2-RELEASE?

2007-02-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 07:32:28PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Steven Hartland writes: > > >The software we will be running is vBulletin so apache + > >php and mysql. > > Mysql is thread based. Quadcore will not help the DB side. Will help with > the other components though, if you host ever

*****SPAM***** Re: FreeBSD Scaling on 6.2-RELEASE?

2007-02-23 Thread Francisco Reyes
Steven Hartland writes: The software we will be running is vBulletin so apache + php and mysql. Mysql is thread based. Quadcore will not help the DB side. Will help with the other components though, if you host everything in the same machine. ___

Re: FreeBSD Scaling on 6.2-RELEASE?

2007-02-23 Thread Achim Patzner
On 23.02.2007, at 14:11, Steven Hartland wrote: We have some Dual Dual Core's here but I'm considering the Quad Core upgrade but am a little concerned that this may start to become OS limited given the 8 Cores. Well... It's definitely better on our Xeon 5355 compute servers (Intel SR1500-based

Re: FreeBSD Scaling on 6.2-RELEASE?

2007-02-23 Thread Claus Guttesen
I'm looking at new machines for high access forums / DB and wonder if anyone has any experience with how well FreeBSD specifically 6.2 scales on Dual Quad Core Intel's. We have some Dual Dual Core's here but I'm considering the Quad Core upgrade but am a little concerned that this may start to be

FreeBSD Scaling on 6.2-RELEASE?

2007-02-23 Thread Steven Hartland
I'm looking at new machines for high access forums / DB and wonder if anyone has any experience with how well FreeBSD specifically 6.2 scales on Dual Quad Core Intel's. We have some Dual Dual Core's here but I'm considering the Quad Core upgrade but am a little concerned that this may start to be