June 19, 2013

Post: Heikki Tuuri Innodb answers - Part I

…other for leaf nodes. The first 32 pages of a segment are allocated … page data size drops below this limit, merging it to a neighbor is tried…MySQL Server option, though it may have problems on Linux if you lock very large portion of physical memory… 128 pages would require a bit more work. Now it is …

Post: Heikki Tuuri answers to Innodb questions, Part II

…data smaller) or can a bit slow it down. Plus…on the availability of RAM? On a dedicated server for Mysql you will still need some memoryMysql server for a client, upgrading their main database (from 16GB, 2 two-year old HT’ed XEONs to 32…testing going on to quantify what are the limits of different…

Post: Intel Nehalem vs AMD Opteron shootout in sysbench workload

memory, so it is full CPU bound benchmark. The full numbers, script and config are on32 threads, with AMD a little bit slower. After 32 threads, system based on Intel handles 48-256 threads pretty decent, but on… this is rather MySQL problem, and 32 cores may be limit of scaling for MySQL 5.6. Anyway…

Post: Economics of Performance Optimization

… to go significantly higher like 32 cores and 128G of RAM …on some dedicated (or even virtual) rented server which would usually have 1-2GB of memory…be limited by MySQL server so the alternative would be either spend $5000 on …need another server a bit later. However if you have 100 MySQL servers to …