speeding up MySQL import

[der.hans]

Am 14. Oct, 2010 schwätzte Eric Cope so:

> It doesn't answer your questions, but what made you decide to move to
> Percona? Are you moving to XtraDB?

My boss said to change ;-).

We need better performance from a couple of our databases. Percona has a
reputation for having good performance patches.

We would have considered MariaDB, but want to wait until some others have
done road-testing for us :). Actually, if I can, I'll have at least one
MariaDB box as a slave. I might even be able to use it as a master in a
couple of places.

The claims of better scalability for many cores for XtraDB interests us.
Most of our DBen are sitting idle on RAM starved machines, but a couple
are really beating the heck out of their hardware. We want to consolidate
the DBen on RAM-starved machines to some centralized DB servers, which
will then also be exercising the hardware.

ciao,

der.hans
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