[SlugBug] MySQL clustering

[Neil McGovern]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 02:43:50PM +0000, Gary Stimson wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 January 2005 13:13, Neil McGovern wrote:
> > What's the purpose of the cluster? Is it to decrease load on boxes, or
> > to intoduce soem failover resiliancy?
> 
> Fault tolerance. However the technical info on the clustering says the nodes 
> keep all the db data in memory. The database will grow to many GB so the 
> cluster is no good for us. We can use the single master-to-multi slave 
> replication instead and add some code to the clients so they try other db 
> nodes if their usual db node isn't working.
> 

Yup, that would have been my suggestion :)

Neil
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