… claim they are in Commodity Software or Hardware business but few would probably mention they are doing it for Commodity People, because few… the team understand and is able to support if needed. What scares me in MySQL Development is what is is quickly leaving this Commodity Space in terms…
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… have RAID available which is used for OS hard drive. Indeed using RAID for OS partition (software) is what we use even for…
Post: Rendundant Array of Inexpensive Servers
August 21, 2008 By 15 Comments
… can work quite well for small systems. It is my experience – with quality commodity hardware (Dell,HP,IBM etc) you would see box failing once per couple of years of uptime which is enough to… to be. This is also why Sun is so proud about checksums on the file system level in ZFS. What is about RAID when…
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 usually with results from such benchmarks there is no direct… it better to disable them. The MySQL Settings are probably what is the most interesting: MySQL 5.0 Tuning in /etc/my…
Comment: Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS
February 22, 2011 By 54 Comments
… – performance is not the driving force to cloud adoption. Definitely agree. The same could be said for Sun servers versus commodity hardware ten years ago. However people moved to commodity hardware in droves. Another way of looking at the question of “Is it… for that peak load. With cloud servers you don’t. What‘s more managers unsure of their business direction can tryout…
Post: A piece of Sun/MySQL Marketing
February 27, 2008 By 7 Comments
…Everything – Hardware, Virtualization, OS, Database Server, Web Server are all different. This pretty much means you have no clue on what is … There is also another trap which is hardware/software configuration which is chosen. $200K per box and 830W is probably a lot more than commodity hardware …
Post: Heikki Tuuri answers to Innodb questions, Part II
November 4, 2007 By 13 Comments
… that there is some writing that always occurs to the first file in a log file group. My questions are: What is always… SCSI interface both in hardware and software. I’m still surprised with databases being so much of commodity no one has something… key equality searches should work through the adaptive hash index! What is your database like? Do you have a big enough buffer…
Post: KISS KISS KISS
March 1, 2009 By 7 Comments
… visited by 100 people in a month is attempted to be sharded. Remember as commodity hardware is advancing the size of the application when… every single “role” in such setup you need to understand what to do with it if any other “role” in the… single MySQL server on a good hardware has MTBF somewhere between 1000 and 2000 days. This is a lot of time which…
Comment: Living with backups
February 19, 2010 By 28 Comments
… running the same OS, so I’m not sure what the common thread is yet. Whether it’s a cpu issue, mobo… XX options compiled in on XX hardware” kind of issue. We run a lot of commodity hardware here so it’s not uncommon…
Comment: MySQL Partitioning - can save you or kill you
September 18, 2011 By 14 Comments
… want to start by going with a hosting service using commodity hardware and MySQL with the client side PHP. My client has… development. What I need to know from you is some direction in what training I need to take. Please be detailed in what you think the training I need is. Any…
