…. Here is example run of purely CPU consuming “Benchmark” function for 2.6Ghz Intel Xeon vs T2000: # XEON mysql> select benchmark(100000000… web applications. I’m hearing Sun is working on new CPUs which would offer significantly higher single thread performance, but at this time…
Post: Scaling to 256-way the Sun way
November 11, 2008 By 13 Comments
… course it is not T2000 any more and the CPU performance got a bit better but as I understand single thread performance is still… AMD cores). Do not get me wrong. The multi-threading architecture Sun has is great for many applications… however it is NOT… for MySQL unless you really really do not care about single thread performance (REPLICATION, ALTER TABLE etc) and willing to run insane…
Post: Another ingenious piece of Sun Marketing
March 20, 2009 By 20 Comments
……. Besides discussion on the thread itself I had a lot of private comments in my mail from Sun/MySQL employees which tended… Sun comments about Sun not pushing this as scalable MySQL platform. Well this is T5440 now not T2000 but the outstanding gap in single thread CPU… 1GB each which will allow us not to care about single thread performance for replication needs, ALTER TABLE or any long running…
Comment: T2000 CPU Performance - Watch out
May 1, 2008 By 12 Comments
… by Sun on a T5120 over the last few days. The T5120 essentially a next gen T2000. Twice as many threads-… a single FPU for the whole chip as in the T2000. For comparison I’ve been up against a Sun X4100 … resource utilization on the T5120 is much lower: 20% CPU versus 80-85% on the X4100. I have a …
