In my post MySQL 5.5.8 and Percona Server: being adaptive I mentioned that I used innodb-log-block-size=4096 in Percona Server to get better throughput, but later Dimitri in his article MySQL Performance: Analyzing Percona’s TPCC-like Workload on MySQL 5.5 sounded doubt that it really makes sense. Here us quote from his article: “Question: what is a [...]
MySQL 5.5.8 – in search of stability
January 3, 2011 By 11 Comments
A couple of days ago, Dimitri published a blog post, Analyzing Percona’s TPCC-like Workload on MySQL 5.5, which was a response to my post, MySQL 5.5.8 and Percona Server: being adaptive. I will refer to Dimitri’s article as article [1]. As always, Dimitri has provided a very detailed and thoughtful article, and I strongly recommend reading if [...]
MySQL 5.5.8 and Percona Server on Fast Flash card (Virident tachIOn)
December 21, 2010 By 11 Comments
This is to follow up on my previous post and show the results for MySQL 5.5.8 and Percona Server on the fastest hardware I have in our lab:Â a Cisco UCS C250 server with 384GB of RAM, powered by a Virident tachIOn 400GB SLC card. To see different I/O patterns, I used different innodb_buffer_pool_size settings: 13G, [...]
MySQL 5.5.8 and Percona Server: being adaptive
December 20, 2010 By 25 Comments
As we can see, MySQL 5.5.8 comes with great improvements and scalability fixes. Adding up all the new features, you have a great release. However, there is one area I want to touch on in this post. At Percona, we consider it important not only to have the best peak performance, but also stable and predictable performance. I refer you [...]
Write performance on Virident tachIOn card
December 13, 2010 By 10 Comments
This is crosspost from http://www.ssdperformanceblog.com/. Disclaimer: The benchmarks were done as part of our consulting practice, but this post is totally independent and fully reflects our opinion. One of the biggest problems with solid state drives is that write performance may drop significantly with decreasing free space. I wrote about this before (http://www.ssdperformanceblog.com/2010/07/free-space-and-write-performance/), using a [...]
Is there benefit from having more memory ?
November 19, 2010 By 10 Comments
My post back in April, http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2010/04/08/fast-ssd-or-more-memory/, caused quite interest, especially on topic SSD vs Memory. That time I used fairy small dataset, so it caused more questions, like, should we have more then 128GB of memory? If we use fast solid state drive, should we still be looking to increase memory, or that configuration provides [...]
HandlerSocket on SSD
November 2, 2010 By 9 Comments
We all enjoyed Yoshinori announcement of HandlerSocket, the plugin to MySQL which open NOSQL way to access data stored in InnoDB. The published results are impressive, but I want to understand some, that’s why I run couple more experiments. In blog post Yoshinori used the case when all data fits into memory, and one of [...]
Percona Server scalability on multi-cores server
September 29, 2010 By 14 Comments
We now have hardware in our test lab that represents the next generation of commodity servers for databases. It’s a Cisco UCS C250 server, powered by two Intel Westmere CPUs (X5670 @ 2.93GHz). Each CPU has 6 cores and 12 threads. The most amazing part is the amount of memory. It has 384GB of RAM, which is [...]
SSD: Free space and write performance
July 17, 2010 By 9 Comments
( cross posting from SSD Performance Blog ) In previous post On Benchmarks on SSD, commenter touched another interesting point. Available free space affects write performance on SSD card significantly. The reason is still garbage collector, which operates more efficiently the more free space you have. Again, to read mode on garbage collector and write [...]
Virident tachIOn: New player on Flash PCI-E cards market
June 15, 2010 By 19 Comments
(Note: The review was done as part of our consulting practice, but is totally independent and fully reflects our opinion) In my talk on MySQL Conference and Expo 2010 “An Overview of Flash Storage for Databases” I mentioned that most likely there are other players coming soon. I actually was not aware about any real [...]
