RE: MySQL on Linux 2.4 question

2002-01-10 Thread Weaver, Walt
ozeman, Montana -Original Message- From: Heikki Tuuri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 3:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MySQL on Linux 2.4 question Walt, a possible reason is that fsync is much faster in Linux-2.4 than in 2.2. Check that the combine

Re: MySQL on Linux 2.4 question

2002-01-10 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 12:59:01AM +0200, Heikki Tuuri wrote: > Walt, > > The kernel 2.4.4-SMP-64GB has been very stable on our 2-way > computer. Somewhere in about version 2.4.10 Linus changed the > virtual memory. I am not sure how stable kernels 2.4.10 - .17 are, > but at least some people ar

Re: MySQL on Linux 2.4 question

2002-01-09 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Walt, a possible reason is that fsync is much faster in Linux-2.4 than in 2.2. Check that the combined size of your log files is 50 % - 100% of the buffer pool size. Small log files cause more disk i/o and more fsyncs. The kernel 2.4.4-SMP-64GB has been very stable on our 2-way computer. Somewh

Re: MySQL on Linux 2.4 question

2002-01-09 Thread John Kemp
Walt, Yup, we use Innodb with 3.23.46 on Linux 2.4.2. I can't tell you whether things are better than they were on 2.2 kernels but we're updating tables just about that quickly I'd say. Largest table we have is a log table which has 50 million rows in it so far. Thanks to Innodb row locking,

RE: MySQL on Linux 2.4 question

2002-01-09 Thread Nally, Tyler G.
Amazing! I've not had a chance to upgrade a server to 2.4 yet, though I've long imagined that the results would be similar. I imagine the biggest performance boost you received is due to the built-in multi-threading that the 2.4 kernel enjoys which is currently lacking in the 2.2 kernel. L

Re: MySQL on Linux 2.4 question

2002-01-09 Thread Joel Wickard
600,000 row table? what are you storing on that bad boy? - Original Message - From: "Weaver, Walt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 2:17 PM Subject: MySQL on Linux 2.4 question > Anyone else out there been playing with the new Linux 2.4 ker