… work for Commodity People, and people seems to agree with me. Number of vendors would claim they are in Commodity Software or Hardware business but few would probably mention they are doing it for Commodity People, because few people…
Post: RAID and Scale Out Discussions
June 12, 2007 By 3 Comments
… made thinking about commodity hardware and really smart people, while in most cases tasks have to be solved with commodity hardware and commodity people. RAID… for search index because it is far faster than using software RAID. But this is only because Sphinx allows using highly…
Comment: RAID and Scale Out Discussions
June 12, 2007 By 3 Comments
… made thinking about commodity hardware and really smart people, while in most cases tasks have to be solved with commodity hardware and commodity people.â… death will be 3-5 years out. The software infrastructure needs to become stable enough so that commodity people can use them.
Post: Rendundant Array of Inexpensive Servers
August 21, 2008 By 15 Comments
… well for small systems. It is my experience – with quality commodity hardware (Dell,HP,IBM etc) you would see box failing once… order of magnitude more availability issues caused by their own software bugs, DOS attacks and other issues. However as your system… expect in production. Requirement to have Spare hardware is also the reason why commodity inexpensive hardware is often better choice. If you have…
Post: A piece of Sun/MySQL Marketing
February 27, 2008 By 7 Comments
… better results on these Xeons ? or is it “Leading Virtualization Software” used with Windows is a crap ? Remembering horrible MySQL performance… trap which is hardware/software configuration which is chosen. $200K per box and 830W is probably a lot more than commodity hardware most of…
Post: Small things are better
October 8, 2006 By 15 Comments
… can get corrupted because of MySQL bugs, OS Bugs or hardware bugs, misconfiguration or failures. Sometimes corruption kind be mild, so… any component, such as piece of hardware or software can fail, even if this piece of hardware has some internal redundancy by itself… size per system (yet another reason to like medium end commodity hardware) makes it faster to recover, smaller tables allow per table…
Post: Modeling InnoDB Scalability on Multi-Core Servers
January 26, 2011 By 11 Comments
… that measure what happens under increasing concurrency while holding the hardware constant, but not as many with varying numbers of cores… performed is Universal Scalability Law modeling, which can predict both software and hardware scalability, depending on how it is used. In brief…€œMagny-Cours†2.1GHz CPUs. It is a reasonably typical commodity machine except for the high core count, which is more…
Post: Heikki Tuuri answers to Innodb questions, Part II
November 4, 2007 By 13 Comments
… with SCSI interface both in hardware and software. I’m still surprised with databases being so much of commodity no one has something…? HT: Contention and thread thrashing depends very much on the hardware, and also on the OS version. In our tests, removing…
Comment: MySQL Partitioning - can save you or kill you
September 18, 2011 By 14 Comments
To whom it may concern, I have been a software developer and database administrator/developer for decades, focusing mostly on … want to start by going with a hosting service using commodity hardware and MySQL with the client side PHP. My client has…
Comment: Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS
February 22, 2011 By 54 Comments
… all the testing I’ve done – even for RAID 0. Hardware RAID makes assumptions about the minimum amount of time that…, LSI, 3ware, Highpoint and software RAID. Software RAID performs best for all SSD that I’ve tested, even the lower-end commodity drives.
