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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:34:45 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: Poor mysql scaling across the board pre 5.1.22?
Message-ID:  <474DC2D5.60107@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071128193158.GD71382@elvis.mu.org>
References:  <03db01c831cc$8ead9890$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <474DBDE8.10107@FreeBSD.org> <20071128193158.GD71382@elvis.mu.org>

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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> [071128 11:13] wrote:
>> Steven Hartland wrote:
>>> Some interesting comments here:
>>> http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3162&p=10
>> Indeed, mysql 5.0 has poor scaling compared to postgresql (this affects 
>> reads but severely affects writes).  However when I tested the latest 
>> beta of 5.1 about 6 months ago I found it had about 50% lower 
>> performance than 5.0 in a read-only configuration.  Maybe they had left 
>> some debugging enabled or have since fixed it.
> 
> One thing that mysql can suffer from is the lack of row level locking
> for MYISAM tables, I found that to be a write performance killer with
> multiple concurrent accesses.
> 
> INNODB is supposedly better.

This was innodb, afaicr.

Kris



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