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

Re: Hardware requirements

2005-05-06 Thread Brent Baisley
That's kind of like asking what kind of car to buy to get from point A to point B. A sports car, it will get you there fast and in style. Unless you are a moving company, then it's totally inappropriate. A taxi service? Well that's different too. Ok, so you are selling by internet. Amazon.com,

Re: Hardware requirements

2005-05-06 Thread Frank Bax
At 10:17 AM 5/6/05, Berta Alcala Larramendi wrote: 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 info

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
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve -- ...and then Steve Vernon said... % % Hiya! Hi! % % Thanks for the quick reply!!! Sure thing :-) % % But dosen't it make more sense to have 20 0.5 Gig files rather than one 10 % Gig file? I wouldn't think so. The manual doesn't seem

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 happily write much la

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 are using doesn

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

Re: Hardware recommendation

2003-08-14 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 04:30:21PM -0500, Jackson Miller wrote: > I am going to have to put MySQL on it's own box, and I am wondering what makes > the biggest difference with hardware. > > I am hoping to set max_connections to 1000 at least (and I will probably use > at least 500 several times a

Re: Hardware Planning

2002-06-27 Thread Georg Richter
On Thursday, 27. June 2002 21:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, > I apologize for not being more specific. The query that is taking too long > is : > SELECT * FROM Stories WHERE UCASE(Path) LIKE 'toUpper(path)%'; > Path is a 255 char field with an index on it. path is variable passed in. > Thanks

RE: Hardware Planning

2002-06-27 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi A few thoughts. I am not an expert on this kind of use, so there may be others with better suggestions :) If every search is different then your search efficiency is critical. If you fulltext index the field then it should help. If not then what about indexing the text document words. You s

Re: Hardware Planning

2002-06-27 Thread jeremy
"Benjamin Pflugmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 3:08 PM Subject: Re: Hardware Planning > Hi. > > On Thu 2002-06-27 at 13:35:28 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am currently using mys

Re: Hardware Planning

2002-06-27 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Thu 2002-06-27 at 13:35:28 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am currently using mysql 4.01 with caching for web page serving. I > pull several records out with a like statement on a text field. The db > consists of about 200,000 records right now and it is using 100% of the cpu > whe

Re: Hardware Planning

2002-06-27 Thread mos
At 12:35 PM 6/27/2002, you wrote: > I am currently using mysql 4.01 with caching for web page serving. I >pull several records out with a like statement on a text field. The db >consists of about 200,000 records right now and it is using 100% of the cpu >when the search is ran. > Since thi

Re: Hardware Help.

2002-01-05 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Kris Saw writes: > We have been using mysql for some time to run and administer our dynamic > content sites. During this time we have run mysql on low end intel > hardware (dual PIII 900 with a gig of RAM) on linux and have discovered > that a single mysql server in this configuration could not

Re: Hardware advise

2001-06-20 Thread Steve Brazill
You didn't mention how many 'transactions per second/minute/hour' you expect... (on those 25 connections) A Sun Ultra 10 is just a PC built by Sun (but with a Ultra-SPARC CPU and other nice enhancements). I don't know if Sun has made it possible to attach ANY brand of disk drive (that they haven

Re: Hardware

2001-05-15 Thread David Simmons - EliteUKServe.Net
Try: http://eliteukserve.net/dedicatedservers/dedicated_servers.html We specialise in managed custom server solutions. We have great experience in providing mass virtual solutions incorporating Linux based systems such as SuSE and RedHat with MySQL. I would say perhaps a Dual PIII 1GHz SCSI wou

Re: Hardware

2001-05-15 Thread Steve Brazill
Look on Ebay for Compaq 1850R 'rackmount' servers... You can find one with 'dual' Pentium II CPU's, dual power supplies (which you can plug into 2 different circuits or UPS's), and enough SCSI drive slots to provide the disk space (and the different number of storage devices to 'mirror' and s