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Date:      Sat, 02 Oct 2010 13:44:06 +0200
From:      "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "Rumen Telbizov" <telbizov@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: MySQL performance concern
Message-ID:  <op.vjx5jsp48527sy@212-123-145-58.ip.telfort.nl>
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On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:06:52 +0200, Rumen Telbizov <telbizov@gmail.com> =20
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I am experimenting with MySQL running on FreeBSD and comparing with =20
> another
> (older) setup running on a Linux box.
> My results show that performance on Linux is significantly better than
> FreeBSD although the hardware is weaker.
> I'd appreciate your comments and ideas.
>
> Here's the setup:
>
> 1) FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE amd64 (Tue Sep 14 15:29:22 PDT 2010) running on a
> SuperMicro machine with 2 x Dual Core
> Xeon E5502 1.87Ghz ; 4 x SAS 15K in RAID10 setup under ZFS (two mirrore=
d
> pairs) and 2 x SSD X25-E partitioned
> for: 8G for ZIL and the rest for L2ARC; 16G ram with 8 of them given to
> mysql and tons of free.
>
> 2) Linux Gentoo with 3 SATA disks in hardware RAID5 with similar
> cpu/motherboard and same memory size.
>
> The sole application that runs is a python script which inserts a batch=
 =20
> of
> lines at a time. Only myisam is used as a format.
> Here's the problem: On the Linux box it manages to push around
> *5800*inserts/second while on the FreeBSD box
> it's only *4000/*second.
>
> MySQL version is 5.1.51
>
> During this load the disk subsystem on FreeBSD is pretty much idle (bot=
h =20
> the
> SSDs and the SAS disks). CPU utilization
> contributed to mysqld is only around 30%. So I am clearly heavily
> under-utilizing the hardware.
> Linuxthreads support for 64bit architectures is not available so I =20
> couldn't
> try that but aside from that I tried recompiling
> mysql with all the different Makefile options available without any =20
> effect.
> Changing the recordsize in zfs to 8K doesn't make any difference.
> Tried percona binary without any luck.
>
> Let me know what additional information would be useful and I'll provid=
e =20
> it
> here.
>
> Thank you in advance for your comments and suggestions.
>
> Cheers,
> Rumen Telbizov

Your app is singlethreaded I presume, so the multi-cores are not relevant=
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in this story.
Do you have the same indexes on the tables on both servers?
Do they both have the same way to connect with mysql? Unix sockets or =20
localhost?
Do they both run mysql 5.1.51, because you mention the Linux one is older=
?

Ronald.



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