Flickr uses InnoDB, by the way.
On Thu, 24 May 2007 18:07:21 +0200, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>
>>> problem with your setup. Granted, MySQL is a pretty bad database, but
>>> it's not *that* bad -- your example implies that heavily MyISAM-based
>>> (you don't say whether this is MyISAM or InnoDB) sites such as
>>> Slashdot and Flickr should be falling over every hour.
>> I'm not going to comment on who's fault it is, but the OP quoted 100
>> updates and 600 selects per *second*. I can't imagine Flickr or Slashdot
>> (which is heavily csched for reading) are under anything like that sort
>> of constant load.
>
> Uhmmm.... I would not be surprised at *all* at slashdot or flickr doing
> that type of velocity. We have customers right now that under peak are
> doing 10 times that and yes these are customers that have similar types
> of websites.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake