Re: [kris@obsecurity.org: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems]

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [kris@obsecurity.org: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems]
Date: 2007-03-02 15:01:29
Message-ID: 20070302150129.GF4885@alvh.no-ip.org
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> From: Kris Kennaway <kris(at)obsecurity(dot)org>

> We have recently made significant progress on optimizing for MySQL
> running on an 8-core amd64 system. The graph of results may be found
> here:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/scaling.png
>
> This shows the graph of MySQL transactions/second performed by a
> multi-threaded client workload against a local MySQL database with
> varying numbers of client threads, with identically configured FreeBSD
> and Linux systems on the same machine.

Interesting -- the MySQL/Linux graph is very similar to the graphs from
the .nl magazine posted last year. I think this suggests that the
"MySQL deficiency" was rather a performance bug in Linux, not in MySQL
itself ...

--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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