[mdlug] L1 & L2 Cache AMD & Intel

[Dan Pritts]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 01:31:38PM -0800, David Lane wrote:
> The Next resource I'm looking it is a database server (MySQL)/Intranet HTML server .
> 

VERY broadly speaking, for most DB applications, if you have to
choose between CPU cache and more main memory, choose more main
memory.

Next (or perhaps *before* main memory) choose faster hard disks,
and/or a faster RAID controller.

If you're sure you'll have enough main memory & fast enough disks,
more CPU cache can't hurt.  

Probably, though, a better buying strategy would be to try your
application on the hardware you already have and see where the
bottleneck is.

danno