Life as a consultant: my crooked arm for a pillow
Sometimes there are funny communication styles between people who are geographically distributed and working together all the time. Recently one of our team members echoed back to me some answers I gave over a chat session:
Q: Is it OK for me to buy quad-core servers?
A: The old man walks slow but carries much, whilst the young boy runs without a care.
Okay, okay maybe I wasn’t very clear in my message, and maybe it was just a little bit Confucian. Here’s what I actually said:
Xaprb: 8 cores may be OK for some workloads
Xaprb: high-concurrency, not so good
Xaprb: discounts, yes
But I assure you, I would never write to a client this way. Only my colleagues.
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. What MySQL seeks in hopefully in a covering index.
Sum Yung-man
3 Sep 08 at 4:35 pm
Excellent :)
Xaprb
3 Sep 08 at 4:39 pm
So would 8 Cores have a negative impact compared to 4 Cores?
Its getting harder and harder to get a machine with less than 8 Cores.
erkatschu
4 Sep 08 at 2:48 am
It is true, they are making it harder to get 4-core machines these days. Especially if you want a high clock speed.
The answer is, it depends. But stay tuned to http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com for more on this topic very soon.
Xaprb
4 Sep 08 at 8:21 am