Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:01:38 -0400 From: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Running large DB's on FreeBSD Message-ID: <453D49D2.1010705@rogers.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Greetings, I am in the process of implementing a fairly large mysql server for an even larger company, and naturally i want to use FreeBSD. The hardware will be an HP DL385, 2 x dual-core Opterons, 16GB RAM, 7 x 15k rpm disks in a RAID5 setup. I'm not exactly informed as to the specific workload yet, however i know the database will have several million rows and be larger than 10GB. So, first of all, am i crazy for choosing fbsd+mysql for this rather than something like Solaris + Oracle? :) Secondly, i am just looking for some suggestions, opinions, success/failure story's that may help me out. Is anyone out there using FreeBSD for something of this size? I am hoping that everything will work out well, and the client will be happy. This would generate some good PR for FreeBSD, as it is a very large international company and it would be the first FreeBSD server (that i know of) of this type there. Thanks, any input will be appreciated.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?453D49D2.1010705>