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

Fwd: hardware & clusters

2007-08-31 Thread Michael Dykman
That is not a question that can be answered directly... it come down to exactly how much data you expect to be handling, how many nodes you plan on using and what your proposed node configuration might be.. generally, a lot of RAM always helps and in a RAM-based solution like NDB, of course it's li

hardware & clusters

2007-08-31 Thread Sid Lane
all, I am working on a budget proposal for next year to put in a MySQL cluster but wanted to validate (or correct) a couple of assumptions: 1. do storage nodes benefit far more from additional RAM than they do from faster CPUs/multiple cores? 2. do SQL nodes benefit more from faster CPUs/multi