Semi OT: MySQL memory probs...

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 20:06 -0700, Kevin Brown wrote:
> > We've got an environment with ALL innodb tables and been forced to use
> > OS X servers. They are total memory and CPU hogs. Just hoping there
> > were some people that had some insight into OS X server, why it abuses
> > virtual memory and how best to deploy mysql on it.
> > 
> > Me thinks that the MySQL binary has memory leaks... but that's just a guess.
> 
> Why MySQL performance seems subpar on an OSX system...
> 
> http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436
> 
> Specifically:
> http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436&p=6
> and:
> http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436&p=7
> 
> Follow up article:
> http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2520
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the followup article (which I had never seen before) was devastating. Of
course the first article was the source of the initial devastation, but
this is certainly worse.

In reality though, do people buy Mac OSX because they feel like they are
going to get performance? (Yeah, I know that Apple has advertised their
MacBook as running Windows faster than any Windows laptop but
really...are you gonna buy a MacBook to run Windows?)

Craig