I tested both platforms on a SAN every day for 26 days 18 hours a day
straight.
I came to this conclusion. The kernel does make a huge difference in the two
platforms. Especially on the chipset patches and the disk IO subsystem.
If you go with AMD do not use 2.6.7 or ext3. EXT3 has a bug in it an
Miles Keaton wrote:
> We've got a really high-load MySQL server and are planning to get a
> new server.
>
> Has anyone seen tests comparing performance of MySQL on AMD64
> versus Xeon CPUs?
These tests are about a year old, but showed the Opteron was usually 50
to 100 percent faster in most often
