> Has anyone had any experiences running MySQL on a Xserve G5 with Macintosh
OSX?
We are thinking of purchasing some new hardware to run our MySQL
server. The
> 64-bit architecture is something we would like to take advantage of.
I've had great success running it on my 4-year old Mac laptop
I would have to agree, and I'm mostly a Mac person in a Mac shop. The
controller chips that ship with the Opterons are optimized for that
chip and the RAM they use. The throughput they can get is phenomenal.
As far as I know, the XServer G5's aren't shipping yet, but will be
soon. I don't think
> Has anyone had any experiences running MySQL on a Xserve G5 with Macintosh
> OSX?
>
> We are thinking of purchasing some new hardware to run our MySQL server. The
> 64-bit architecture is something we would like to take advantage of.
>
> Is this good, bad, otherwise? Any comments would be app
The benchmarks look good for opterons and mysql, i just scored a Sun Fire
V100, still havent benchmarked that yet though.
> Not to start a flame war, but just a question/suggestion...
>
> Do you specifically want a Mac (i.e. are you a Mac shop), or are you
> looking for inexpensive 64 bit?
>
> If
Not to start a flame war, but just a question/suggestion...
Do you specifically want a Mac (i.e. are you a Mac shop), or are you looking
for inexpensive 64 bit?
If the latter applies, you might want to look at an AMD64 box running Linux
(SuSE and Mandrake are two that come to mind as having 64
