… go to “Elite” servers on Dell web site but looking at customers system today I went to check Dell Poweredge R900. This monster takes up to 4 Quad Core CPUs and has 32 memory slots, which allows to get 128GB… we usually configure PowerEdge 2950) with 128GB of RAM for about $16000. This means talking to Dell Sales rep it can purchases within…

… G5 servers in Active/Passive configuration with a similar configuration to the Dell you mention. Two quad core CPU’s and 128GB of RAM… because of innodb’s threading issues. However.. having that much RAM means *zero* IO bound load. And even when we do…