We started using XtraDB a few months ago, I wasn't involved in the actual implementation of it so I asked our DBA, here is what he said: "it is supposed to wor

We started using XtraDB a few months ago, I wasn't involved in the actual implementation of it so I asked our DBA, here is what he said: "it is supposed to work better with 8 core boxes like we have - both in terms of IO, and cpu usage. it also gives us more flexibility on tweaking parameters."