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Read moreWe just pushed to sysbench support for workload against multiple tables ( traditionally it used only single table).
It is available from launchpad source tree lp:sysbench .
This is set of LUA scripts for sysbench 0.5 ( it supports scripting), and it works following way:
– you should use –test=tests/db/oltp.lua to run OLTP test
i.e. prepare
Shell
./sysbench –test=tests/db/oltp.lua –oltp-tables-count=25 […]
Read moreGood news for all Percona Software users out there. There are more ways how you can get access to Percona Software. If you’re using Scalr (See also Scalr Project on Google Code) you might be interested in Percona Server roles support Scalr team has announced recently. If you’re Mac user […]
Read morePercona Server 5.5.11-20.2 is now available for download, including an experimental build for MacOS. Released on April 28, 2011, it is the current stable release in the the 5.5 series.
New Features
HandlerSocket, a NoSQL plugin for MySQL, has been updated to the latest stable version as April 11th, 2011.
InnoDB fast index creation now works […]
Read moreThere are many ways to slice and aggregate metrics of activity on a system such as MySQL. In the best case, we want to know everything about the system’s activity: we want to know how many things happened, how big they were, and how long they took. We want to know precisely […]
Read moreKudos to Ronald Bradford for creating a new MySQL meetup group in New York city and giving MySQL related talks. The next one is tonight, titled “MySQL Idiosyncrasies That Bite”. Information on it can be found at http://ny.effectivemysql.com/events/16884850/.
We’ll have a contingent from our New York office there this evening. We went to the last […]
As continuation of my CPU benchmarks it is interesting to see what is scalability limitation in MySQL 5.6.2, and I am going to check that using PERFORMANCE SCHEMA, but before that let’s estimate what is potential overhead of using PERFORMANCE SCHEMA. So I am going to run the same benchmarks (sysbench read-only and […]
Read moreHarrison Fisk, from the Facebook database team, will be in New York City delivering the closing keynote at Percona Live next month. He’ll be talking about the present status and future plans for MySQL inside Facebook’s environment. As you probably know, Facebook is one of the largest users of MySQL, with their […]
Read moreTime for our weekly review of the news! The big news this week is that Percona XtraBackup is ready to try out on Windows. Otherwise, there’s just more steady progress.
One quick note, sort of a “to whom it may concern,” is that the proper trademarked names of our products include “Percona Server”, […]
Having two big boxes in our lab, one based Intel Nehalem (Cisco UCS C250) and second on AMD Opteron (Dell PowerEdge R815), I decided to run some simple sysbench benchmark to compare how both CPUs perform and what kind of scalability we can expect.
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