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: 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

Re: Interesting Hardware Article

2005-06-17 Thread Sebastian
probably biased towards AMD. money is a powerful thing, which is why it should be taken with a grain of salt as you stated. i would guess the 12% decrease on 64bit xeon and 32% increase on 64bit opteron is BS. why didn't they try itanium instead? ;) David Griffiths wrote: Anandtech has an