Factors for slower mysqldump on superior hardware vrs faster dump on slower hardware. Same install. Why?

2010-03-22 Thread David Taveras
3 0/direct fixed sd0: 237464MB, 512 bytes/sec, 486326272 sec total Perc6 RAID controller in RAID1 ( i have even tried with one hard disk and no raid controller and the results are not improved by much) They are also SATA discs behind. In fact.. I have also some ogther more sophisticated hardware then M

Re: Performance Problems With JOINS - Tunnng required or upgrade hardware?

2007-09-14 Thread Baron Schwartz
Hi, Your English is fine :) Your queries don't look too bad. It could be there are no good indexes. Have you tried running EXPLAIN on them? What version of MySQL are you using? You can also try profiling the queries (by hand with SHOW STATUS, or more easily with MySQL Query Profiler) to s

Performance Problems With JOINS - Tunnng required or upgrade hardware?

2007-09-14 Thread [ Triadbrasil ] Filipe Tomita
Hi all, First sorry my bad english :) I having a problem with a large join with 10 tables with 70Gb of text data, some joins executed by index but some others not. I´m work with HP SERVER (Proliant NL-150) a 2 Xeon 2 Duo with 3Gb Ram and RAID 0. When executed to a client with small datasets the

Re: Is bad hardware confusing MySQL and InnoDB?

2007-09-14 Thread Jeremy Cole
Hi Maurice, You say the MySQL data wasn't on the stuck volume, but were the InnoDB logs? What is the disk configuration? It sounds to me like bad hardware/software, which, unfortunately MySQL and InnoDB cannot protect you from... Regards, Jeremy Maurice Volaski wrote: Some processes

Is bad hardware confusing MySQL and InnoDB?

2007-09-12 Thread Maurice Volaski
is corrupt. InnoDB: Cannot continue operation. Is it wrong to expect InnoDB to have avoided this or does it suggest that it couldn't have, i.e., a hardware defect? -- Maurice Volaski, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of

Re: hardware & clusters

2007-09-08 Thread Jimmy Guerrero
Hello, If you have not already done so, check out the Cluster Eval Guide which has some tips which may assist you in your process. Much of the content was put together by the professional services group here at MySQL. http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/white-papers/mysql_cluster_eval_guide.php Al

Re: hardware & clusters

2007-08-31 Thread Ricardo Oliveira
Hi, As usual, everything is heavilly dependant on your specific scenario. Anyway, as a rule of thumb, databases benefit a LOT from RAM, and storage nodes benefit from I/O (more, faster disks). Regards, Ricardo -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To u

Fwd: hardware & clusters

2007-08-31 Thread Michael Dykman
That is not a question that can be answered directly... it come down to exactly how much data you expect to be handling, how many nodes you plan on using and what your proposed node configuration might be.. generally, a lot of RAM always helps and in a RAM-based solution like NDB, of course it's li

hardware & clusters

2007-08-31 Thread Sid Lane
all, I am working on a budget proposal for next year to put in a MySQL cluster but wanted to validate (or correct) a couple of assumptions: 1. do storage nodes benefit far more from additional RAM than they do from faster CPUs/multiple cores? 2. do SQL nodes benefit more from faster CPUs/multi

Re: Minimum hardware requirements

2007-02-14 Thread Dan Buettner
2.5 billion rows. I'm currently choosing the hardware i'll need. Does anybody know what the minimum spec of machine is likely to be that I comfortably use? I imagine the table will have to be Innodb split across a number of files. It will also need careful indexing to be able to access

Re: Minimum hardware requirements

2007-02-14 Thread Dan Buettner
ransactions etc. then of course MyISAM is out. HTH, Dan On 2/14/07, richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have a table (structure below) which will hold 2.5 billion rows. I'm currently choosing the hardware i'll need. Does anybody know what the minimum spec of machine is likely

Minimum hardware requirements

2007-02-14 Thread richard
Hi, I have a table (structure below) which will hold 2.5 billion rows. I'm currently choosing the hardware i'll need. Does anybody know what the minimum spec of machine is likely to be that I comfortably use? I imagine the table will have to be Innodb split across a number of files

Re: Recommended Hardware Configurations

2006-12-17 Thread David T. Ashley
On 12/17/06, Mike Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am sure this question has probably been asked in this group before, but I would like to get an updated answer. If you were building your own boxes to run clustered MySQL servers, how would you configure the boxes? (This would of course be for

Re: Recommended Hardware Configurations

2006-12-17 Thread Chris White
On Sunday 17 December 2006 13:20, Mike Duffy wrote: > My intuitive judgment is that we would be better having several smaller > systems in a cluster rather than one huge powerful system and that we would > be better off building rather than than buying. If you think I am wrong on > either of these

Recommended Hardware Configurations

2006-12-17 Thread Mike Duffy
I am sure this question has probably been asked in this group before, but I would like to get an updated answer. If you were building your own boxes to run clustered MySQL servers, how would you configure the boxes? (This would of course be for an enterprise level database system.) I am looking

Re: Looking For How test database performans on different hardware

2006-07-29 Thread Eric Bergen
Vahric, There are so many variations between different hardware platforms that can affect performance on your specific application that it's better to run benchmarks on the actual hardware if you have it. If not then Peter Zaitsev's performance blog is the next best reso

Looking For How test database performans on different hardware

2006-07-27 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Hello , I want to test Mysql , on Dual Intel Xeon 2MB Cache CPU and Dual AMD Opteron platforms for looking differents which one is better then other ! I found something but I want to asl to list , is there anybody have an experiance about this type tests ! Regards Vahric MUHTARYAN Sistem M

Hardware experiences

2006-02-24 Thread Rod Heyd
Hi, I'm just looking for any experiences that people might want to offer on this subject. My project is in the process of selecting hardware to build out our system, and we are considering getting a few of the new Sun Fire T1000's to run mysql on. We are expecting that the project w

Re: [OT-ish] Hardware for MySQL server

2005-12-13 Thread Gary Richardson
I don't have any experience with dual core yet (my first dual dual core box is scheduled to arrive this week!!). I don't think I'd opt for a dual core in place of 2 single cores. I'm hoping (expecting?) to see an advantage in 2 DC over 2 SC. As far as SCSI over SATA goes, I exclusively use SATA. I

Re: [OT-ish] Hardware for MySQL server

2005-12-13 Thread James Harvard
Thanks for all the feedback on this. Is there any received wisdom on whether 1 dual core processor is better than 2 'normal' processors? Also, is there any advantage to SCSI over SATA? TIA, James Harvard -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscr

Re: [OT-ish] Hardware for MySQL server

2005-12-12 Thread Sid Lane
does it absolutely HAVE to be 1u? if you can go 2u we've been really happy w/HP DL385s lately. 2u form (which is still pretty small for a DB server), redundant power supplies (a good thing for DB server), six drive bays (so you can RAID5 or three mirror pairs), remote management card and Opteron

Re: [OT-ish] Hardware for MySQL server

2005-12-12 Thread Gary Richardson
eb middleware) with an > ISP, so I have no experience of choosing hardware configurations or sourcing > them. > > My current client's application involves a very large amount of data which I > have split into a number of tables. These tables (data files) are currently > bet

Re: [OT-ish] Hardware for MySQL server

2005-12-12 Thread SGreen
James Harvard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/12/2005 10:26:42 AM: > [Apologies for my first post here being semi-off-topic!] > > I normally deploys apps I develop (MySQL with Lasso web middleware) > with an ISP, so I have no experience of choosing hardware > configurat

[OT-ish] Hardware for MySQL server

2005-12-12 Thread James Harvard
[Apologies for my first post here being semi-off-topic!] I normally deploys apps I develop (MySQL with Lasso web middleware) with an ISP, so I have no experience of choosing hardware configurations or sourcing them. My current client's application involves a very large amount of data wh

Re: Recommendations on new hardware

2005-09-07 Thread Bruce Dembecki
Yes... OS X 10.4 with a 32 but MySQL binary is stable... it is the combination of 64 bit OS (Tiger), and the 64 bit MySQL binary, and accessing more than 2Gbytes of memory within the mysqld process that blows up the machine. You can also run the 64 bit binary but keep the memory allocation

Re: Recommendations on new hardware

2005-09-07 Thread Bruce Dembecki
our experiences there too. Ok, you are almost selling me on getting an Xserve, can you tell me a bit about the 64bit issues and how they affect me? I have someone who may just donate my a xserve, one of the older ones, but still, not a bad piece of hardware at all. --

Re: Recommendations on new hardware

2005-09-07 Thread Scott Haneda
on 9/7/05 8:42 PM, Bruce Dembecki at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yeah, 64 bit isn't working... we can set the memory partition for > InnoDB to some big number, like say 10G or more (on the 16G Xserves), > and it will launch, so it has 64 bit OS and 64 bit MySQL Binaries... > We get past the first h

Re: Recommendations on new hardware

2005-09-07 Thread Bruce Dembecki
ng an Xserve, can you tell me a bit about the 64bit issues and how they affect me? I have someone who may just donate my a xserve, one of the older ones, but still, not a bad piece of hardware at all. -- - Scott Haneda

Re: Recommendations on new hardware

2005-09-07 Thread Larry Lowry
For hardware we are just assembling generic Athlon 64 boxes. I just put together two Dual core A64 4400+ boxes as web servers, running them as a two node cluster. My new DB box is a Dual core 4400+ with 4gigs of memory and 10k sata drives. I know some folks have had trouble with the 10k

Re: Recommendations on new hardware

2005-09-07 Thread Daniel Kasak
similar to OS X. However, if someone can tell me a good Linux distro to go with, I will use that. Mainly, I would like to know what hardware to be looking at, something in the rack mount style, a 1U would be nice. Bigger if need be. I just set up a LAMP system on a SunFire V20z dual 248 Opte

Re: Recommendations on new hardware

2005-09-07 Thread Scott Haneda
me a bit about the 64bit issues and how they affect me? I have someone who may just donate my a xserve, one of the older ones, but still, not a bad piece of hardware at all. -- - Scott HanedaTel: 415.898.26

Re: Recommendations on new hardware

2005-09-07 Thread Scott Haneda
on 9/7/05 11:11 AM, Chris Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'd definitely try those first before forking out 2 grand. Its not that I really have a choice, I do not have a spare mac around, so I need new hardware no matter what. To move OS's on a live mysql server and then get t

Re: Recommendations on new hardware

2005-09-07 Thread Bruce Dembecki
plies. One solution (the one they are seemingly presenting) may be to change the database server's hardware platform. But it's not the only solution, and you should look beyond this one issue to make sure you are choosing something appropriate to your actual needs. We're

Re: Recommendations on new hardware

2005-09-07 Thread Chris Martin
On 9/7/05, Brent Baisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you've probably read in the article, the hardware isn't too bad, > it's OS X that is slowing things down. Interesting article. Helped me make my decision between OS X, and Debian on our xServes. It appears bypas

Re: Recommendations on new hardware

2005-09-07 Thread Mark Addison
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 08:30 -0600, Cory Robin wrote: > Brent Baisley wrote: > > > If you do go the new hardware route, I wouldn't go with SCSI is you > > only have $2K to spend. S-ATA2 based drives would give you similar > > performance to SCSI, but at a

Re: Recommendations on new hardware

2005-09-07 Thread Cory Robin
Brent Baisley wrote: If you do go the new hardware route, I wouldn't go with SCSI is you only have $2K to spend. S-ATA2 based drives would give you similar performance to SCSI, but at a big cost savings. SCSI's big performance advantage was in command queueing which SATA2 drives

Re: Recommendations on new hardware

2005-09-07 Thread Brent Baisley
As you've probably read in the article, the hardware isn't too bad, it's OS X that is slowing things down. I would first go the free route. Download YellowDog Linux and install that on your current Mac hardware. That will give you a big boost when the load starts to climb.

Recommendations on new hardware

2005-09-06 Thread Scott Haneda
However, if someone can tell me a good Linux distro to go with, I will use that. Mainly, I would like to know what hardware to be looking at, something in the rack mount style, a 1U would be nice. Bigger if need be. I probably will have two hard drives, set as a mirror, or just use psync or rsync to c

Re: mysql and limitations and hardware features support

2005-06-23 Thread Jigal van Hemert
From: "d2clon" > im very interested about the limitations and hardware features support. > for example: > > software limitation: > how much rows does a table can to have? > how much size of a database does mysql support? These depend on the version of MySQL and

mysql and limitations and hardware features support

2005-06-23 Thread d2clon
hello people: im very interested about the limitations and hardware features support. for example: software limitation: how much rows does a table can to have? how much size of a database does mysql support? ... hardware features support: has mysql multi-processor support? how much processors

Re: Interesting Hardware Article

2005-06-17 Thread Sebastian
as an interesting article (http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2447) on hardware for Linux database servers. Some very interesting conclusions: 1) Moving to 64-bit MySQL on a 64-bit Xeon actually decreases performance by about 12% on average, while an Opteron running 64-bit MySQL gets

Re: Interesting Hardware Article

2005-06-17 Thread Dan Rossi
On 18/06/2005, at 4:28 AM, David Griffiths wrote: Anandtech has an interesting article (http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2447) on hardware for Linux database servers. Some very interesting conclusions: 1) Moving to 64-bit MySQL on a 64-bit Xeon actually decreases performance by

Interesting Hardware Article

2005-06-17 Thread David Griffiths
Anandtech has an interesting article (http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2447) on hardware for Linux database servers. Some very interesting conclusions: 1) Moving to 64-bit MySQL on a 64-bit Xeon actually decreases performance by about 12% on average, while an Opteron running 64-bit

Re: Hardware requirements

2005-05-06 Thread Brent Baisley
day and only 5 days a week. Very different software and hardware requirements and probably traffic patterns. Amazon and eBay would both require clustering and load balancing, Woot would probably only require automatic failover. Many is a relative term and so is high performance and high av

Re: Hardware requirements

2005-05-06 Thread Frank Bax
to find as much information as possible about the hardware requirements like number of processors, necessary memory, cache, HD... to use in a high performance MySQL server With an open-ended question like yours, your going to get open-ended answers. I am running MySQL on several machines. One of tho

Hardware requirements

2005-05-06 Thread Berta Alcala Larramendi
Hello, I'm doing an University project and I need to "buy" a server for a business. I have to simulate an enterprise that sells by Internet. There are many clients and products in the Data Base and we use MySQL in a Linux OS. I need to find as much information as possible abo

Hardware and Architectural Configuration

2004-11-29 Thread Suryya Ghosh
database. Can anybody help us by recomending a suitable hardware and architectural configuration for the the database. With Regards, Suryya

Re: massive fulltext indexes - what hardware?

2004-11-07 Thread Mark Maunder
We won't be serving concurrent queries. On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 10:41, Michael J. Pawlowsky wrote: > Another thing to consider is how many transactions per minute/second you > will need to serve. > > Mark Maunder wrote: > > I'm busy building an application that will have 10 million records, each

Re: massive fulltext indexes - what hardware?

2004-11-07 Thread Michael J. Pawlowsky
Another thing to consider is how many transactions per minute/second you will need to serve. Mark Maunder wrote: I'm busy building an application that will have 10 million records, each with a chunk of text - about 500 words each, on average. Does anyone have any benchmarks they can share with my

massive fulltext indexes - what hardware?

2004-11-06 Thread Mark Maunder
I'm busy building an application that will have 10 million records, each with a chunk of text - about 500 words each, on average. Does anyone have any benchmarks they can share with mysql's fulltext search performance on indexes of this size? What I'd like to know is what size server I need to run

Re: Building new db linux box, Hardware questions

2004-11-02 Thread Gary Richardson
> 1) would it be better to go brandnew with a single processor or like a quad > p4 that's a year or two old. Depends on how your application runs. BTW, I don't think they made quad p4's. You can't run p4 chips in SMP -- they must be Xeon's. > > 2) I am going to running raid 5, so I assume that I

Building new db linux box, Hardware questions

2004-11-02 Thread Randy Paries
Hello, I am building a new linux box , just to be an mysql server I have a couple of questions. 1) would it be better to go brandnew with a single processor or like a quad p4 that's a year or two old. 2) I am going to running raid 5, so I assume that I should run scsi drives? 3) my database i

Re: RAM-usage and hardware upgrade >10gb RAM

2004-07-23 Thread Jan Kirchhoff
David Griffiths wrote: We just put a new dual-Opteron server into our production environment. We ordered a Megaraid SCSI card and five 10k drives, and a 3Ware Escalade SATA card with six 7200 RPM drives (Maxtor) to see which ones were best. Our network guy did a bunch of benchmarking on the dri

Re: RAM-usage and hardware upgrade >10gb RAM

2004-07-20 Thread Marc Slemko
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 18:13:36 +0200, Jan Kirchhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > We are currently using a 4.0.16-replication-setup (debian-linux, kernel > 2.4.21, xfs) of two 2.4ghz Intel-Pentium4 systems with 3gig RAM each > and SCSI-Hardware-Raid, connected via gig

Re: RAM-usage and hardware upgrade >10gb RAM

2004-07-20 Thread David Griffiths
course we don't want to waste it for scsi-hardware if we can reach almost the same speed with hardware sata-raids. 'Almost' is a key word. Some SCSI disk are working at 15k RPM, which will give you a HUGE MySQL performance growth compared to 10k disks. AFAIR, there are

Re: RAM-usage and hardware upgrade >10gb RAM

2004-07-20 Thread Brent Baisley
shouldn't it be possible to reach the speed of fast scsi-discs by simply taking 2-3 fast sata-discs in a hardware raid0? Our goal is a raid10, so reading should be even faster. -- Brent Baisley Systems Architect Landover Associates, Inc. Search & Advisory Services for Advanced Technology Envi

Re: RAM-usage and hardware upgrade >10gb RAM

2004-07-20 Thread Jan Kirchhoff
Egor Egorov wrote: Money is not really an issue but of course we don't want to waste it for scsi-hardware if we can reach almost the same speed with hardware sata-raids. 'Almost' is a key word. Some SCSI disk are working at 15k RPM, which will give you a HUGE MySQL per

Re: RAM-usage and hardware upgrade >10gb RAM

2004-07-20 Thread Egor Egorov
Jan Kirchhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Money is not really an issue but of course we don't want to waste it for > scsi-hardware if we can reach almost the same speed with hardware > sata-raids. 'Almost' is a key word. Some SCSI disk are working at 15k RPM, wh

RAM-usage and hardware upgrade >10gb RAM

2004-07-19 Thread Jan Kirchhoff
Hi, We are currently using a 4.0.16-replication-setup (debian-linux, kernel 2.4.21, xfs) of two 2.4ghz Intel-Pentium4 systems with 3gig RAM each and SCSI-Hardware-Raid, connected via gigabit-ethernet. We are reaching the limit of those systems and are going to buy new hardware as well as

RE: Any MySQL + IBM Power CPU Hardware (pSeries, iSeries, JS20, B lade) Users?

2004-06-26 Thread Rafi Sheikh
Currently running MySQl on AIX 5.1, F40 -Original Message- From: Zak Greant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 3:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Any MySQL + IBM Power CPU Hardware (pSeries, iSeries, JS20, Blade) Users? Greetings All! MySQL AB is interested in

Any MySQL + IBM Power CPU Hardware (pSeries, iSeries, JS20, Blade) Users?

2004-06-25 Thread Zak Greant
Greetings All! MySQL AB is interested in talking to MySQL users who running MySQL on IBM Power CPU server hardware (pSeries, iSeries, JS20 Blade). If you (or someone you know) are willing to chat with us, please let me know at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for your help! Cheers! -- Zak Greant

RE: Running MySQL and PostgreSQL on the same hardware

2004-05-26 Thread Kevin Cowley
ics.co.uk -Original Message- From: Andrew Braithwaite [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 May 2004 14:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Running MySQL and PostgreSQL on the same hardware Thanks Kevin, I am comfortable with the software installs etc.. I was more concerned with hardware bottlenec

RE: Running MySQL and PostgreSQL on the same hardware

2004-05-26 Thread Andrew Braithwaite
Thanks Kevin, I am comfortable with the software installs etc.. I was more concerned with hardware bottlenecks and OS (linux 2.4) problems etc.. Any pointers would be great.. Cheers, Andrew -Original Message- From: Kevin Cowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday 26 May 2004

RE: Running MySQL and PostgreSQL on the same hardware

2004-05-26 Thread Kevin Cowley
or over a month. Kevin Cowley R&D Tel: 0118 902 9099 (direct line) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.alchemetrics.co.uk -Original Message- From: Andrew Braithwaite [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 May 2004 10:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Running MySQL and PostgreSQL o

Running MySQL and PostgreSQL on the same hardware

2004-05-26 Thread Andrew Braithwaite
Hi All, Does anyone have any experience of running MySQL and PostgreSQL on the same hardware? At the moment we have several reasonable fast servers (dual Xeon GHz, 1GB ram, 15,000rpm scsi disk) running MySQL in a replicated environment with high volumes of queries (high read:write ratio) and I

RE: upgraded hardware: new server is faster, but "GROUP BY" opera tions are slower???

2004-05-24 Thread Charles, Tony (Exchange)
only these "GROUP BY" type operations are slower on the new box! They must use the hardware in a different way? Here is a summary of what I see regarding the CPU cache (from dmesg). Do you think these figures support your theory? (I'm not sure how Athlons compare to Xeons?) Note that

Re: upgraded hardware: new server is faster, but "GROUP BY" opera tions are slower???

2004-05-21 Thread Sasha Pachev
Kevin Cowley wrote: Don't tell me - you upgraded a PIII server to a PIV server? The cache on the PIV is les than half the size of a PIII. We've hit this problem with our own apps that by the way they operate cache a lot of data. A PIII 1.4GHz will match a 2.4 GHz PIV. Yes, MySQL code is written wit

RE: upgraded hardware: new server is faster, but "GROUP BY" operations are slower???

2004-05-21 Thread Donny Simonton
IL PROTECTED] > Subject: upgraded hardware: new server is faster, but "GROUP BY" > operations are slower??? > > > Hi all, > > Just bought a new server, which was supposed to improve the performance of > our app. > > The new machine has the same OS (Redhat 8), same

RE: upgraded hardware: new server is faster, but "GROUP BY" opera tions are slower???

2004-05-21 Thread Kevin Cowley
2 9099 (direct line) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.alchemetrics.co.uk -Original Message- From: Charles, Tony (Exchange) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 May 2004 18:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: upgraded hardware: new server is faster, but "GROUP BY" operation

upgraded hardware: new server is faster, but "GROUP BY" operations are slower???

2004-05-21 Thread Charles, Tony (Exchange)
Hi all, Just bought a new server, which was supposed to improve the performance of our app. The new machine has the same OS (Redhat 8), same MySQL (4.0.18), and same my.cnf. The problem is that this (frequently run) query, actually runs 41% slower! select * from LEG L, LEG_DETAIL D, DEAL

Re: Using a hardware load balancer in from of MySQL

2004-05-14 Thread sp4mv0rt3x-mysql
--- "PARTHA DUTTA, BLOOMBERG/ 499 PARK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, I would like to find out if anyone has > implemented an architecture > where a hardware load balancer is placed in front of > some MySQL servers in a > Multi-master replication sc

Re: Using a hardware load balancer in from of MySQL

2004-05-13 Thread Robert J Taylor
Sounds like you might be interested in Emic Networks' Application Cluster 2.0 for MySQL. We've begun taking a look at it ourselves -- without arriving at any conclusions at this point. (However, it is not strictly a hardware solution.) General Info: http://www.emicnetworks.co

Re: Using a hardware load balancer in from of MySQL

2004-05-13 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 06:49:01AM -0400, PARTHA DUTTA, BLOOMBERG/ 499 PARK wrote: > Hello all, I would like to find out if anyone has implemented an architecture > where a hardware load balancer is placed in front of some MySQL servers in a > Multi-master replication scheme. I want t

Using a hardware load balancer in from of MySQL

2004-05-13 Thread PARTHA DUTTA, BLOOMBERG/ 499 PARK
Hello all, I would like to find out if anyone has implemented an architecture where a hardware load balancer is placed in front of some MySQL servers in a Multi-master replication scheme. I want to use the load balancer more for high availability, than for load balancing. All connections to

Re: Best Performing Hardware/OS/MySQL?

2004-03-30 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Tim Cutts wrote: On 30 Mar 2004, at 09:05, Tim Cutts wrote: SATA RAID devices aren't that bad, you know, and they are a lot cheaper than equivalent amounts of SCSI storage. We've used NexSan ATABoy devices, which are relatively cheap, and get you a lot of storage in very little space (10GB in

Re: Best Performing Hardware/OS/MySQL?

2004-03-30 Thread Tim Cutts
On 30 Mar 2004, at 09:05, Tim Cutts wrote: SATA RAID devices aren't that bad, you know, and they are a lot cheaper than equivalent amounts of SCSI storage. We've used NexSan ATABoy devices, which are relatively cheap, and get you a lot of storage in very little space (10GB in a 3U box). I did

Re: Best Performing Hardware/OS/MySQL?

2004-03-30 Thread Chad Attermann
First off, thanks so far for the valuable input. I have a few tables that are relatively large (approx. 18 mil records and 8GB of data in one) and growing so I will be looking more toward higher end hardware. However without infintely deep pockets, I'm wondering where the best place is to

Re: Best Performing Hardware/OS/MySQL?

2004-03-30 Thread Tim Cutts
On 29 Mar 2004, at 23:55, Donny Simonton wrote: SCSI, 15,000 RPM drives and a decent amount of memory 2-16 gigs. Dual procs definitely do help; we have tried it with dual procs with hyperthreading and without and with hyperthreading seems to be much faster. Besides that, you can run it on any

Re: Best Performing Hardware/OS/MySQL?

2004-03-29 Thread Ed Reed
and have always run MySQL on older generation Sun servers running Solaris 8. I now seem to be outgrowing my setup and I (and I'm sure others on the list) would appreciate input from the MySQL community as to which hardware, OS, and MySQL flavor/version combinations are best for running MySQL. I expect

RE: Best Performing Hardware/OS/MySQL?

2004-03-29 Thread Donny Simonton
x27;s our choice. But just say no to IDE drives! Donny > -Original Message- > From: Chad Attermann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 3:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Best Performing Hardware/OS/MySQL? > > Hello All, > > I have

Best Performing Hardware/OS/MySQL?

2004-03-29 Thread Chad Attermann
Hello All, I have been a MySQL user for some time and have always run MySQL on older generation Sun servers running Solaris 8. I now seem to be outgrowing my setup and I (and I'm sure others on the list) would appreciate input from the MySQL community as to which hardware, OS, and

RE: Help with lengthy query? - solved - Now hardware questions

2004-03-29 Thread Jay Drake
Thanks to all who helped me out. It seems I missed an essential AND statement in my query. Including it brought me from 32 seconds to about 1-2 seconds and all seems to be doing fairly well. I'm a little concerned at this point for the work I'm asking the hardware to do. The server

Hardware devices price-list

2004-03-02 Thread miguel
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Hardware devices price-list

2004-03-01 Thread miguel
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Re: Newbie - How to determine hardware requirements?

2003-11-06 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
ping > a number of databases or are there some guidelines I can use? The best solution I've found, aside from intimate knowledge of the application and db server software, is testing. Do some stress testing on whatever hardware you can get your hands on. That'll often provide so

Newbie - How to determine hardware requirements?

2003-11-06 Thread Paul Fine
Greetings. Does anyone have any suggestions besides trial and error for determining how resource intensive my database is going to be? Is this just something the a developer just gets a feel for after developing a number of databases or are there some guidelines I can use? Thanks for any help!

Re: Hardware Raid and 2 Gig Limit

2003-11-03 Thread Steve Vernon
THanks everyone for all your help! Steve - Original Message - From: "Pete Harlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David T-G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "mysql users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Steve Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Frida

Re: Hardware Raid and 2 Gig Limit

2003-10-31 Thread David T-G
on and % backups at the moment. So I plan to stop MySQL. Copy the database files to a How on earth do you have 10G of data to handle without any budget for replication or backups? What happens when your hardware breaks, or even someone fat-fingers a delete command? % temp directory. THen download

Re: Hardware Raid and 2 Gig Limit

2003-10-31 Thread Pete Harlan
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 05:44:02AM -0500, David T-G wrote: > % > % Does the 2 Gig file size limit on Linux get broken when I have a hardware > % raid controller? > > The limit applies only to ext2 filesystems, and not all of them at that; > ext3 and reiserfs (and others) can

RE: Hardware Raid and 2 Gig Limit

2003-10-31 Thread Peter Lovatt
--- -Original Message- From: Steve Vernon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 October 2003 14:19 To: Peter Lovatt; Mysql List Subject: Re: Hardware Raid and 2 Gig Limit Hiya! Thanks for the help!!! Do RSync like big files? Or does it prefer smaller

Re: Hardware Raid and 2 Gig Limit

2003-10-31 Thread Steve Vernon
ovatt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Steve Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mysql List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 12:17 PM Subject: RE: Hardware Raid and 2 Gig Limit > Hi > > We have a similar challenge

Re: Hardware Raid and 2 Gig Limit

2003-10-31 Thread Brent Baisley
Don't confuse hardware RAID with MySQL RAID. The 2GB file size limit is a function of the operating system and the file system in use, it has nothing to do with the disk hardware you have installed. Your ISP may say you don't need the raid option activated because the system they

RE: Hardware Raid and 2 Gig Limit

2003-10-31 Thread Peter Lovatt
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 October 2003 12:00 To: Mysql List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hardware Raid and 2 Gig Limit Hiya! Thanks for the quick reply!!! But dosen't it make more sense to have 20 0.5 Gig files rather than one 10 Gig file? I know you can split files, but basi

Re: Hardware Raid and 2 Gig Limit

2003-10-31 Thread Steve Vernon
I looked into big tables for myself and everyone said you need the raid option in MySQL. Now I'm not sure! Thanks, Steve - Original Message - From: "David T-G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "mysql users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Steve Vernon" <

Re: Hardware Raid and 2 Gig Limit

2003-10-31 Thread David T-G
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve -- ...and then Steve Vernon said... % % Hello, Hi! % % Does the 2 Gig file size limit on Linux get broken when I have a hardware % raid controller? The limit applies only to ext2 filesystems, and not all of them at that; ext3 and reiserfs

Hardware Raid and 2 Gig Limit

2003-10-31 Thread Steve Vernon
Hello, Does the 2 Gig file size limit on Linux get broken when I have a hardware raid controller? My ISP says I don't need the raid option activated on MySQL. Thanks, Steve -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:

Requirement on hardware and OS

2003-10-30 Thread Kew Yoke Ling
Hi all, I am a novice in mySQL and would like to use it to embark a Ecommerce project. I have the following OS/Hardware issues that I hope to know: 1. I plan to install in Red Hat Linux Advanced Server. What version is certified, any pre-reqs? 2. I will use Intel server. What chip is

Requirement on OS and Hardware

2003-10-30 Thread dfas fdsf
Hi all, I am a novice in mySQL and would like to use it to embark a Ecommerce project. I have the following OS/Hardware issues that I hope to know: 1. I plan to install in Red Hat Linux Advanced Server. What version is certified, any pre-reqs? 2. I will use Intel server. What chip is

Re: What is best hardware for server performance

2003-10-23 Thread Travis Reeder
Well I probably can tweak the queries, but there are a LOT of them. It is for http://www.ecommstats.com so we get a TON of requests that have to processed with probably ~20 queries (selects, inserts, updates), then there is a maintenance program that runs every few minutes to clean things up a

Re: What is best hardware for server performance

2003-10-23 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:59:31PM -0600, Travis Reeder wrote: > It seems mostly to be mysql pinned, not the app. like 99% mysql until > all data is processed and keeps going up when data coming in is more > than can be processed. So MySQL is using 99% of the CPU? Any idea why? Are you doing

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