Hi nononsense, Thx. I have never gotten MySQL going and this was my first 64-bit installing experience in *nix. I chose RHEL because it is what they recommend at DELL. I was astonished, all I did was click a mouse button and it installed an enterprise level Unix system. It recoginzed all my hardware, including the Perc SCSI RAID controller automatically. Not even Windows is this easy :eek: I may try Gentoo 64-bit and FBSD 64-bit in the Linux distro space. I tried Solaris 10 for x86_64 and it has all kinds of problems, the biggest one is that it does not recognize the RAID controller and I could find no drivers for it (nor did DELL know of any.) Besides, I downladed core J2SE 5.0 with embedded Netbeans and it installs and runs great on the DELL running RHEL. Where is RHAT stock price at? I wish there was a place that published MySQL benchmarks using different server-class machines and different 64-bit *nix so that I can see where my machine is in the spectrum of MySQL performance. Soon I will know anyway as I am going to pounce it by writing a simple linux sockets client/server application that will simulate the amount of data I get and will store it and retrieve timeseries to the 64-bit DELL using 64-bit MySQL as the DB. I am hoping to get 100,000 stores per second :eek: I would also like to experiment with using ReiserFS and other File systems. I am configuring the Dell to use RAID 10 over four SCSI 320 drives, so I don't know how much difference it will make to use a high performance FS. I have very little experience with all of this... nitro
Hi nitro, Glad to hear things went great at you. I used some RH myself, then Fedora1 but have since then switched to gentoo. Upgrading used to be very difficult (impossible) with Fedora1. As to MySQL, don't forget that this is in full development. Pretty soon they will release the version with stored procedures. If you are really interested in comparitive performance, do some searches. There is a lot floating around on this. Don't forget to look at MySQL's site for their high capacity/throughput versions. I haven't really tried any of this. As to the choice of the Linux file system, I have been thinking several times of ReiserFS myself. Based on what I read in the forums, I always get the impression that it pays to stick to well throdden paths in the choice of a FS, so I'm still with ext3. You probably did well in your choice. In fact in your case you might not gain very much from Reiser. If I understand, this is superior if you typically have many, many small files. Always hard to tell, but I seem to read many more trouble reports related to Reiser than to any other FS. Be good, nononsense
I have very_few_issues that I am processing and don't have to look that hard for a huge_amount of opportunities. Although my computers still do a fair amount of realtime algorithmic work, both computers and nononsense worked an unspeakable amount of time leading up to all this. Simply to say that these are two samples out of a vast realm of variations on making money. Within both approaches practitioners can still share in many interesting subjects. nononsense
There are lots of ways to trade profitably that only require a text monitor and a run of the mill computer. In fact, one of my strategies require nothing more than that and is a good producer for me. The key to the markets is to find where you fit within it's vast enterprise. I have found that if I only trade for money that I have a hard time staying focused. By knowing that I am a tinkerer, I am able to fulfill all aspects of my personality and intellect by taking this approach of using fast computers and custom written code to find edges - it makes trading for me into a career and less a job. In other words, it's fun for me. Remember what was written on the plaque in the Oracle's kitchen in the movie "The Matrix." It would be a griveous error for someone to trade the way I do simply because I make money. Find out how you like to make money first [get your head straight,] and the rest will fall in place if you keep at it. nitro
I have had almost no problems. I even got one of those "keychain" USB drives and when I stick it into a USB port, presto an icon pops on my desktop and the disk is ready to use I am even thinking of installing different OSs onto to it so that I can easily test different setups.The key disk makes it easy to test installations out of production onto all of my servers. Quite handy actually... I did have to go to a Windows machine to format it first using FAT32, but that was probably because I was to lazy to figure out how to do it in linux. nitro