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Date:      Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:47:51 -0400
From:      Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>
To:        Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <453D54A7.4080303@rogers.com>
In-Reply-To: <op.thwehzrs8527sy@guido.klop.ws>
References:  <453D49D2.1010705@rogers.com> <op.thwehzrs8527sy@guido.klop.ws>

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Ronald Klop wrote:
> I'm running MySQL 5 on Linux at my work (4 disk RAID 10/32G 
> RAM/4xsingle-core). It has a DB of > 100 GB and much more than 
> millions of rows and the preformance is very good with quite a lot of 
> users via the webserver. But I do not have any comparisons with Oracle 
> or other systems. Unforunately we don't run FreeBSD at work except for 
> my workstation.
>

Well, i guess i can always fall back on Linux if there are any major 
problems on FreeBSD.

> The size of the db is not the problem. The load is more important. Are 
> there a lot of sequential queries or simultanious? Do you do a lot of 
> locking/selects/updates/insert? Are there thousands of tables or just 1?
> I do recommend a 64 bit OS if your hardware supports it, because it 
> makes allocating memory for MySQL a lot easier.

Thats the information i do not have yet. My guess is mostly selects and 
possibly more than one table. I also believe they will make use of 
stored procedures. I will have to use AMD64 anyways, as it will be using 
16GB of ram.




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