Re: Solid State Drives and mySQL / RDBMS?

2009-02-09 Thread Johan De Meersman
Obviously doesn't work for extremely large datasets, but nothing stops you from stuffing a server full of memory, assigning a huge block to ramfs, and using that as the second leg of a mirror, with the first leg a real disk device set to write-mostly. Obviously you'll need to create an init

Re: Solid State Drives and mySQL / RDBMS?

2009-02-07 Thread Jujitsu Lizard
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Daevid Vincent dae...@daevid.com wrote: While SSD's (Solid State Disks) have traditionally not been the best hardware to use for rewrite-intensive operations like databases, over the last few months, some leading Linux kernel engineers have been raving about

Re: Solid State Drives and mySQL / RDBMS?

2009-02-07 Thread mos
At 04:53 PM 2/6/2009, you wrote: While SSD's (Solid State Disks) have traditionally not been the best hardware to use for rewrite-intensive operations like databases, over the last few months, some leading Linux kernel engineers have been raving about next generation Intel SSD's that are close

Solid State Drives and mySQL / RDBMS?

2009-02-06 Thread Daevid Vincent
While SSD's (Solid State Disks) have traditionally not been the best hardware to use for rewrite-intensive operations like databases, over the last few months, some leading Linux kernel engineers have been raving about next generation Intel SSD's that are close to 20x faster than the fastest disk