RE: Server Load Question

2006-06-19 Thread Robinson, Eric
Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Server Load Question Eric, I sent you a note about hardware this morning as well, but here's a further thought - Don't know if this is the case, but is this the exact same application served to 100 different customers? And are Database-2 and Dat

Re: Server Load Question

2006-06-19 Thread Dan Buettner
Eric, I sent you a note about hardware this morning as well, but here's a further thought - Don't know if this is the case, but is this the exact same application served to 100 different customers? And are Database-2 and Database-3 the same for every customer? Some kind of reference info per

Re: Server Load Question

2006-06-19 Thread Brent Baisley
72K is a lot of tables. You might get clobbered by the OS trying to handle open files. Something you may need to tweak if you are running a Unix variant. As an aside, if I have a database with 500 tables, I would think of redesigning it. I would suggest looking into virtual servers. Each server

Re: Server Load Question

2006-06-19 Thread Chris White
On Monday 19 June 2006 10:01 am, Robinson, Eric wrote: > Q: In terms of performance, is it better for each customer to have its > own instance of MySQL, each serving 3 databases, or is it better to have > one instance of MySQL serving 300 databases? > > --Eric Can you clarify a bit on instance? A