May 21, 2012

Post: 128GB or RAM finally got cheap

… of memory chips. This means upgrade to default configuration to 128GB of memory will cost you just $9600 (list price). I… 2 CPUs (just as we usually configure PowerEdge 2950) with 128GB of RAM for about $16000. This means talking to Dell Sales… has 4 CPU sockets which means 16 fast cores and 128GB of memory becomes commodity – Quite a challenge for MySQL to…

Comment: Adjusting Innodb for Memory resident workload

…, so very heavy random I/O. Ability to make a 128GB RAM server and fit effectively database to memory so that disk…

Post: XtraDB/InnoDB CPU bound benchmarks on 24cores server

… database fits “in-memory” cases – but on other hand 64-128GB RAM per box is not something rare already and recommendation to…

Post: Is there benefit from having more memory ?

… it caused more questions, like, should we have more then 128GB of memory? If we use fast solid state drive, should… on numbers with 120GB ( as if you have system with 128GB of RAM) and 250GB Buffer_poolread-only, tpsread-write, tps 120GB1866… memory, and it is possible as nowadays systems with 300GB+ RAM already available.

Comment: 128GB or RAM finally got cheap

… the Dell you mention. Two quad core CPU’s and 128GB of RAM (in 16 8GB sticks.. so about $25k instead of… because of innodb’s threading issues. However.. having that much RAM means *zero* IO bound load. And even when we do…

Comment: Star Schema Bechmark: InfoBright, InfiniDB and LucidDB

… fairly can’t recall any servers setup that has 64-128GB of RAM with 128-256GB of SWAP partition. As for constraint…

Post: Star Schema Bechmark: InfoBright, InfiniDB and LucidDB

… ( the box is only 16GB of RAM). MonetDB experts recommended me to extended swap partition to 128GB, but my partitions layout was…

Comment: Scaling to 256-way the Sun way

… your sizing note and my initial intent was to have 128GB of RAM on the T5440 but I could not make it…