… have been testing MySQL 5.0.45 as distributed by Sun on a T5120 over the last few days. The T5120… the T2000. For comparison I’ve been up against a Sun X4100 with 2 AMD dual-cores. Both machines have 16GB… any better on both machines, but I am sure the Sun Niagara chips — especially in their latest incarnation — are very capable…
Comment: T2000 CPU Performance - Watch out
May 1, 2008 By 12 Comments
… I’m getting from the clients – if they deal with Sun Sales – T2000 is what is frequently recommended for MySQL workloads… workloads, because I think this is not communicated enough by Sun Sales and Marketing teams. Or can you give me a link for Sun benchmarks which would show how much T2000 is lower than…
Comment: T2000 CPU Performance - Watch out
May 1, 2008 By 12 Comments
…1, “Sun” is not, to my knowledge, “aggressively pushing T2000 as Scalable … these available for testing, but there are certainly differences. #3, Sun has always been clear that the CMT systems are not…, for a workload. Just have a look here: http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/benchmarks/index.jsp What happens when you…
Post: MySQL Public Worklog and Community Focus
March 25, 2008 By 6 Comments
… little community developed features integrated into it. Being acquired by Sun, I hope MySQL will not need to desperately show growth… get high IPO valuation or sale price. On other hand Sun being serious player on Enterprise market may demand even more… well as making current features more solid. I hope however Sun will be smart enough to invest into allocating resources to…
Comment: A piece of Sun/MySQL Marketing
February 29, 2008 By 7 Comments
… computation. Check this out: http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t5220/benchmarks.jsp http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t5120/benchmarks.jsp… Solaris 10. Check this out for more details: http://www.sun.com/tryandbuy/rules.jsp. If availability of disk is an…
Post: MySQL and PostgreSQL SpecJAppServer benchmark results
July 25, 2007 By 13 Comments
… you however would notice hardware is different – MySQL benchmark use Sun Fire X4100 available in Nov 2005 using Opteron 285 CPU, PostgreSQL benchmarks use Sun Fire X4200 M2 available in September 2006, using AMD Opteron… engine level. As Josh now seems to be working for Sun I expect there is significant optimizations which could be done…
Post: MyISAM concurrent insert
June 13, 2006 By 12 Comments
… id BETWEEN N AND N+20000, id – primary key. Boxes: Sun V40z, Solaris 10, 4 x Dual Core Opteron @ 2.2GHz… with enabled concurrent-insert Quadxeon –skip-concurrent-insert Sun V40z with enabled concurrent-insert Sun V40z –skip-concurrent-insert 1 44.08…
Post: Secure passwords being insecure
May 27, 2012 By 6 Comments
…’ (using password: YES) Broadcast message from root@debian (pts/0) (Sun May 27 13:14:34 2012): The system is going… found root@debian:~# Broadcast message from root@debian (pts/0) (Sun May 27 13:46:08 2012): The system is going…
Post: Percona welcomes Stewart Smith
May 16, 2011 By 8 Comments
… since the start of the project (working on Drizzle for Sun and then Rackspace), he maintains HailDB and previously worked for MySQL (and then Sun) on MySQL Cluster (NDB). Stewart joins Percona to lead our…
Comment: Finding an optimal balance of I/O, CPU, and RAM for MySQL
May 16, 2011 By 4 Comments
…, we did similar stuff back in 2008 when originally joining Sun, which you guys were pretty critical of: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/11/11/scaling-to-256-way-the-sun-way/ Slightly different scalability bottlenecks discussed, but both falling back…
