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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:31:58 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@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:  <20071128193158.GD71382@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <474DBDE8.10107@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <03db01c831cc$8ead9890$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <474DBDE8.10107@FreeBSD.org>

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* 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.

-- 
- Alfred Perlstein



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