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Date:      Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:31:24 +0100
From:      Alban Hertroys <dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Martin <list@manuelmartini.it>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD mysql Benchmark  on 4BSD/ULE scheduler and i386/amd64
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On Mar 14, 2007, at 1:55, Kris Kennaway wrote:

>> This being mysql, the number of processors isn't going to matter
>> much, no matter how many connections you have. Mysql doesn't scale
>> very well to multiple cpu's.
>
> This might be standard dogma, but it also appears not to be true:
>
>   http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/mysql.html

Interesting. Results I have seen using a 16 CPU SGI Altex(?) showed  
an almost linear rise for postgres while mysql topped off after about  
4 threads. Sorry, don't have the URL at hand (I probably still have  
it in my work mail).

Now this may well have been a version before 5.0.33. I'm not sure  
what OS was used either, I suppose it was either Irix or Linux.

Now I am curious whether the same performance drop on Linux would  
occur with a postgres benchmark. It probably will, but if not it  
seems like there's a problem in the way that mysql and linux interact.

--
Alban Hertroys

		"If you can't see the forest through the trees,
		 cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest"



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