Re: Moving MySQL to its own host

[Duncan Robertson <duncan@zog.net.au>]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:50:36 +1200
Simon <greminn@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi There,
> 
> We have a XenEnterprise Server running all debian sarge guests. One of
> the guests is our client web server (Apache/MySQL/PHP). I have read
> that there can be a performance boost in moving the mysql onto its own
> host. Would this be worth looking at?
>

First determine what the bottleneck (if any) is.. if all the Xen hosts are running off the same disk and
the database is diskbound it may be a lot of work for no improvement, when re-arranging the way the applications use the disks may help. 

 
> Thanks
> 
> Simon
>