June 19, 2013

Post: More on MySQL transaction descriptors optimization

… cpu threads) Cisco UCS C250 (12cores/24 cpu threads) Dell PowerEdge R720 (16 cores/32 cpu threads) All are NUMA boxes… excluded NUMA from the equation. We ran tests on Dell PowerEdge R720 box and varied cpu combinations with taskset. The following…

Post: MySQL and Percona Server in LinkBench benchmark

… and IO-bound cases. For this test we used a PowerEdge R720 box with a fast PCI-e flash card as…

Post: Benchmarking Percona Server TokuDB vs InnoDB

… the hardware: I am going to use new the Dell PowerEdge R420 with two Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2450…

Comment: Looking for RAID Controller without Battery Learning problems ?

http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2012-June/046470.html transparent learn cycle NOTE: Virtual disks …

Comment: BoardReader - Forum Search Engine

… uses bunch of Dell Poweredge 2900 for Database and Search nodes and Poweredge 1900 for Web. I think PowerEdge 2900 with couple of…

Post: Intel Nehalem vs AMD Opteron shootout in sysbench workload

… Nehalem (Cisco UCS C250) and second on AMD Opteron (Dell PowerEdge R815), I decided to run some simple sysbench benchmark to… 12 cores / 24 threads of Intel Nehalem X5670, and Dell PowerEdge R815 has 48 cores of AMD Opteron 6168. One of…

Post: 128GB or RAM finally got cheap

… looking at customers system today I went to check Dell Poweredge R900. This monster takes up to 4 Quad Core CPUs… drives RAID and 2 CPUs (just as we usually configure PowerEdge 2950) with 128GB of RAM for about $16000. This means…

Comment: Is MySQL 5.6 slower than MySQL 5.5?

Dimitry, You can’t just look at Ghz. as stated this is Dell PowerEdge 2850 which is about 5 years old box (or more). The per Ghz frequency has improved dramatically with the recent years.

Post: Is MySQL 5.6 slower than MySQL 5.5?

… it. I used Ubuntu 12.04 on some old Dell PowerEdge 2850 server. The questions I tried to answer are how…

Post: MySQL 5.6.7-RC in tpcc-mysql benchmark

… how MySQL 5.6.7 performs Hardware specification Server: Dell PowerEdge R710 CPU: 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660…