June 19, 2013

Post: Why MySQL Performance at Low Concurrency is Important

… terms of benchmarks, Mark Callaghan published an example where 8 sysbench tables are used which means the lowest concurrency you can…

Post: SysBench - benchmark tool

… @ MySQL AB) – http://sysbench.sourceforge.net/ and I want to write a short intro about this tool as sysbench is one of… vs RedHat stuff based on sysbench‘s results (Peter and me provided performance consutling for this publishing). Sysbench has a lot of… tables and queries. 0.5 should be realesed soon. Originally Sysbench supported only MySQL, but later Oracle and PostgreSQL (and deviations…

Post: Sysbench with support of multi-tables workload

… is available from launchpad source tree lp:sysbench . This is set of LUA scripts for sysbench 0.5 ( it supports scripting), and… test i.e. prepare ./sysbench –test=tests/db/oltp.lua –oltp-tables-count=25 prepare run: ./sysbench –test=tests/db/oltp.lua….lua so instead of ./sysbench –test=tests/db/oltp.lua –oltp-tables-count=25 prepare you may use ./sysbench –test=tests/db…

Post: Quality Assurance: Percona Server Development Now Monitored by Automated Sysbench Performance Regression Checks!

… locate the offending commit. Asking developers to execute a local Sysbench run against each bit of modified code is not really… monitoring in place: Live Percona Server Performance Regression Checks Using Sysbench While systems are being optimized, the above is a live… verifying the performance of the current build. Technical details: two Sysbench runs (OLTP read only & OLTP read/write) are executed for…

Post: New distribution of random generator for sysbench - Zipf

Sysbench has three distribution for random numbers: uniform, special and gaussian. … implemented Zipf for sysbench, right now it is in a separate tree https://code.launchpad.net/~vadim-tk/sysbench/zipf-distribution, you…

Post: Intel Nehalem vs AMD Opteron shootout in sysbench workload

… Opteron (Dell PowerEdge R815), I decided to run some simple sysbench benchmark to compare how both CPUs perform and what kind… even released or it is dead ? ). For benchmark I took sysbench oltp ( both read-only and read-write) and MySQL 5…

Post: Sysbench evaluation of iSCSI performance

… posted pretty interesting post about iSCSI vs SCSI performance using SysBench. This is nice to finally see some iSCSI benchmarks done… hardware available for tests. It is also good to see Sysbench being used, as It is developed by our team, even…

Post: Intel 520 SSD in MySQL sysbench oltp benchmark

… if it comes from MySQL. I prepared benchmarks results for Sysbench OLTP workload with MySQL running on Intel 520. You can…

Post: Evaluating IO subsystem performance for MySQL Needs

…-test-mode=rndwr cleanup sysbench v0.4.8: multi-threaded system evaluation benchmark Removing test files… [root@DB10 sysbench]# ./sysbench –test=fileio –max…-test-mode=rndwr cleanup sysbench v0.4.8: multi-threaded system evaluation benchmark Removing test files… [root@DB10 sysbench]# ./sysbench –test=fileio –max…

Post: Side load may massively impact your MySQL Performance

…_sandbox5516.sock prepare [root@localhost msb_ps_5_5_15]# sysbench –test=oltp –db-driver=mysql –mysql-host=localhost –mysql-table…-password=msandbox –mysql-socket=/tmp/mysql_sandbox5516.sock prepare Running Sysbench and MySQLDump. Note we run them in the loop to… variances in performance reliably. Running Sysbench and MySQLDump convurrently gives about 325 req/sec for sysbench and some 100 seconds for mysqldump…