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Re: MySQL and dual-cpu server
Posted by: James Day
Date: December 29, 2004 11:43AM

It really depends on your workload. What is your current CPU use at high demand times? If it's low you're unlikely to benefit much from more CPU power. If you're doing things like MD5 hashes or lots of string operations in queries, it may make a substantial difference.

I've a server which has been seeing perhaps 150 million queries per day with MySQL/InnoDB on a dual Opteron setup with 6 15K SCSI disks. CPU use averaged about 30% and didn't go over 60% much. But that's with a workload which doesn't make the database server do much calculating. Your workload could easily be very different - this just illustrates how little CPU use you can have even while doing lots of work.

The CPU chart for the system I mentioned is here (master server for Wikipedia): http://zwinger.wikimedia.org/ganglia3/?r=month&c=Miscellaneous&h=ariel

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