MySql Load balancing Solutions?

[Doug Poland]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 12:09:24PM -0800, Drumslayer wrote:
> 
> --- Technical Director <trodat at ultratrends.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Drumslayer,
> > 
> > I am part of a team running MySQL 4.1.X on 5 machines in a
> > replication setup. Our first way to help manage load is the use of
> > useful rules in our connection classes to direct "W"rites to our big
> > server with fast I/O and memory and directing "R"reads to our slower
> > I/O less RAM slaves only.
> 
>  The only problem with this is that 4.1 is stil
> considered Beta ("not yet ready for production"). I
> see little chance in convincing managment to utilize
> something beta for something so important.  :(
>  
4.1 is not beta anymore.  I believe it became the production branch as
of 4.1.7.  Now they're up to 4.1.9

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Regards,
Doug