…than to a mechanical disk. I do not know how it is for sequential… database (from 16GB, 2 two-year old HT’ed XEONs to 32 GB… a small OS file cache. I am not sure if Linux currently …I have assigned Inaam as the InnoDB scalability engineer. We do not have much resources for scalability research. Peter…
Comment: Beware of MyISAM Key Cache mutex contention
…old style deadlock. Actually reserches revealed that FreeBSD is historically weak on multithreading. So I digged and digged but still I was very surprised that a 16cores monster could be put on its knees, how… efficient way? I am still of …on MyISAM table? Peter, I owe…
Comment: How much overhead DRDB could cause ?
Hello Peter, Great blog – I enjoyed reading it. BTW, I am following up on an old posting of yours “How much overhead DRDB could cause?”. You have mentioned in the blog and I quote… to play with DRBD on this kind of networks yet. ” ………. I would like to post an update that we have used…

