We are going to release several patches which are not included in official MySQL releases. First one is automatically stack trace for x86_64 systems. Currently MySQL resolves stack in crash only for x86 boxes. You can download patch for 5.0.22 source tree here. How to use: place stack64.diff into main source dir; execute patch -p1 [...]
FreeBSD tests
June 15, 2006 By 15 Comments
I’m continuing my experiments with different OS and today I tested FreeBSD 6.0 on my box. (more details about box and benchmark see here http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/06/13/quick-look-at-ubuntu-606/). Initially I was very pessimistic about FreeBSD, as results were (in transactions/sec, more is better. for comparison the results from Suse 10.0): InnoDB threads FreeBSD 6 Suse 10.0 Suse/ FreeBSD [...]
Quick look at Ubuntu 6.06
June 13, 2006 By 3 Comments
There are a lot of talks around new coming Ubuntu 6.06, so I decided to make quick benchmarks. I used sysbench 0.4.6 oltp-read-only workload with 1000000 rows against InnoDB and MyISAM tables. Such workload is CPU-bound and allows to compare CPU / OS if we are using the same version of MySQL. So I used [...]
