> best to test first with a borrowed Opteron. I want to see the stability
and
> that fsync() and other kernel calls work fast. A customer tested recently
a
> big Itanium II box and its performance looked ok.
Tom's Hardware did some benchmarking of MySQL 3.23.52 with the Opteron:
http://www.tomsha
Owen,
- Original Message -
From: "Owen Scott Medd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Heikki Tuuri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: malloc'ing 2GB+ of memory in mysql
> I know we are fac
I know we are facing this same question right now (I have 8 way servers
with 16GB of memory running MySQL, with 5 GB sitting unused while the poor
innodb buffer pool sits starved for memory). Do we replace these servers
with 4 way Opterons (are there 8 ways promised yet?) or is there another
a
Hello Heikki,
"Heikki Tuuri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I remember someone also reporting a problem that glibc or Linux does not
> allow creation of new threads if one has allocated >= 2 GB user memory. I
> think there are problems in where the OS places the excutable, thread
> stacks, etc.
Per,
I remember someone also reporting a problem that glibc or Linux does not
allow creation of new threads if one has allocated >= 2 GB user memory. I
think there are problems in where the OS places the excutable, thread
stacks, etc.
So it is uncharted territory. Oracle seems to have an option t
