On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 08:18:23PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > > There is a lot of overhead for databases because they need to maintain > ACID compliance; thus they tend to be really disk-intensive. Apache > and MySQL will both compete for the disk as well as the CPU, which is > why there are scalability issues for large web sites. > Two things: - calling MySQL ACID compliant is a bit of a stretch - if Apache is hammering your disk, then you very likely don't have enough RAM (unless your website has gargantuan amounts of content not in a database with a fairly uniform access pattern) Regards, -Roberto P.S. Please don't top post. -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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