Re: RAID stripe size question

Hi, Mikael,

Mikael Carneholm wrote:

> This is something I'd also would like to test, as a common best-practice
> these days is to go for a SAME (stripe all, mirror everything) setup.
> From a development perspective it's easier to use SAME as the developers
> won't have to think about physical location for new tables/indices, so
> if there's no performance penalty with SAME I'll gladly keep it that
> way.

Usually, it's not the developers task to care about that, but the DBAs
responsibility.

>> And look into the commit_delay/commit_siblings settings, they allow you
> to deal latency for throughput (means a little more latency per
> transaction, but much more transactions per second throughput for the
> whole system.)
>
> In a previous test, using cd=5000 and cs=20 increased transaction
> throughput by ~20% so I'll definitely fiddle with that in the coming
> tests as well.

How many parallel transactions do you have?

Markus

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