… claim they are in Commodity Software or Hardware business but few would probably mention they are doing it for Commodity People, because few people would like to be called commodity…
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… only because Sphinx allows using highly parallel architectures which make it possible. The boxes we use indeed even have RAID available…
Post: Rendundant Array of Inexpensive Servers
August 21, 2008 By 15 Comments
… really can work quite well for small systems. It is my experience – with quality commodity hardware (Dell,HP,IBM etc) you would see… if we’re designing the system so it can tolerate hardware failures should we bother about hardware quality at all ? The answer is… expect in production. Requirement to have Spare hardware is also the reason why commodity inexpensive hardware is often better choice. If you have…
Comment: RAID and Scale Out Discussions
June 12, 2007 By 3 Comments
… I think software RAID is an symptom of RAIDs death…. It‘s a nail in the coffin. We use software RAID… 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…. The software infrastructure needs to become stable enough so that commodity people can use them.
Post: New SpecJAppServer results at MySQL and Sun.
November 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment
… us because commodity x86 based hardware was used for the test. So it is not just about Sun it is about OpenSource hardware on Commodity Hardware. As… and on the hardware of the different class so it is really hard to see what really caused the difference. It would be very interesting to see for example results on the same hardware just running PostgreSQL instead…
Comment: Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS
February 22, 2011 By 54 Comments
… versus commodity hardware ten years ago. However people moved to commodity hardware in droves. Another way of looking at the question of “Is it a…
Post: Small things are better
October 8, 2006 By 15 Comments
… Bugs or hardware bugs, misconfiguration or failures. Sometimes corruption kind be mild, so ALTER TABLE to rebuild the table fixes it. Sometimes… 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 backup…
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… Law modeling, which can predict both software and hardware scalability, depending on how it is used. In brief, the benchmarks are sysbench… Opteron 6172 “Magny-Cours†2.1GHz CPUs. It is a reasonably typical commodity machine except for the high core count, which…
Post: KISS KISS KISS
March 1, 2009 By 7 Comments
… in a month is attempted to be sharded. Remember as commodity hardware is advancing the size of the application when you really… do just fine with single “cluster” even on the current hardware for several years. Replication Optimization People often get scared with… this often happens even when system is far from reaching its replication capacity. I would suggest measure and monitor your replication…
Post: A piece of Sun/MySQL Marketing
February 27, 2008 By 7 Comments
… best of the component level. As you can see Everything – Hardware, Virtualization, OS, Database Server, Web Server are all different. This… would get even better results on these Xeons ? or is it “Leading Virtualization Software” used with Windows is a crap ? Remembering… which is hardware/software configuration which is chosen. $200K per box and 830W is probably a lot more than commodity hardware most of…
