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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

As is exactly the same with PostgreSQL for system choice a 2 socket system is optimal for MySQL OLTP performance. As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. driver: intel_pstate CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 .