May 24, 2012

Post: Testing Samsung SSD SATA 256GB 830 - not all SSD created equal

a good product, that’s why I decided to test it. For tests I use sysbench fileio, 16KiB block size (toto the peak throughput at 16-32 threads. And response time: For 16 threads, we may expect 0.96ms response time, which increases toto recommend this drive for a database

Post: Testing STEC SSD MACH16 200GB SLC

MySQL/InnoDB uses async writes, so this will emulate database load, and second, async mode allows toresponse time. In general I have very good experience with this card, and it seems suitable to work with MySQL

Post: Troubleshooting MySQL Memory Usage

how it uses MySQL to identify potential causes. Is it working with large blobs ? Using user variables ? Prepared Statements ? memory tables ? In aTIME: NULL UPDATE_TIME: NULL *************************** 2. row *************************** SESSION_ID: 7234 TABLE_SCHEMA: test

Post: Introducing new type of benchmark

to reality. Benchmarks, like sysbench or tpcc-mysql, start N threads and try to push the databasehow does it affect the response time ? – When we put a load to two nodes instead of three nodes, will it help to improve the response time

Post: Introducing tcprstat, a TCP response time tool

a nutshell, it is a lightweight way to measure response times on a server such as a databaseMySQL, this is the moral equivalent of a query’s response time. The statistics we chose toto tune this exchange, so if you have suggestions on how to …s a first prototype release, and we want much more testing

Post: How to use tcpdump on very busy hosts

a situation where a single connection sends two queries and gets two responses, with a response time of R for each request, and a wait timedatabase took 2R + W time to respond to the first request. Back to the question of, “what is a

Post: Aligning IO on a hard disk RAID – the Benchmarks

a difference here and improves performance up to 15% in case of 8 threads running concurrently. Because the customer was running a databaseto high concurrency response time in the first case is significantly better. It would be interesting however to run similar benchmarks on a

Post: Using Flexviews - part two, change data capture

response times compared to accessing the non-aggregated data. Keeping MVs up-to-date (refreshing) is usually expensive. Adatabases but until recently this type of software was not available for MySQL. Change Data Capture can be used to: Monitor a database

Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit

how to read these, there’s a full explanation in our book, High Performance MySQLdatabase. The first step is to find out what MySQL instances are on the machine. It doesn’t do to just assume there’s aa non-trivial part of the app’s response time. And so on, and so on. I’ll often refer to

Post: Shard-Query turbo charges Infobright community edition (ICE)

MySQL data sets and queries. Another advantage is that it works with all MySQL storage engines. This set of benchmarks evaluates howto test these queries on various engines and databases. Following is a list of the queries, followed by a response time table recording the actual response times