| Bug #40718 | performance regression in 5.1/6.0 vs 5.0 in sysbench OLTP_RO/RW tests | ||
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| Submitted: | 13 Nov 2008 21:20 | Modified: | 13 Mar 2014 17:48 |
| Reporter: | Alexey Stroganov | Email Updates: | |
| Status: | Can't repeat | Impact on me: | |
| Category: | MySQL Server | Severity: | S5 (Performance) |
| Version: | 5.1.30-release | OS: | Linux (SuSE 10) |
| Assigned to: | CPU Architecture: | Any | |
[2 Dec 2008 2:14]
Alexey Stroganov
Reran the tests on the same box but OS is RHEL 5.2:
# Server 1 - 5.0.70-enterprise
# Server 2 - 5.1.30-enterprise-commercial-advanced
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# Results are average values
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# Server 1 Server 2
# Thread INNODB MYISAM INNODB MYISAM
4 2028.07 1490.84 2098.58 1499.12
16 3682.74 2223.20 3512.03 2244.51
64 3429.13 2117.22 3315.55 2184.53
128 3117.63 2093.17 3095.50 2140.47
256 2656.17 2108.60 2789.48 2249.01
There are no drops after 16 threads and whole results looks much better. Need to recheck with the latest SLES release.
[2 Dec 2008 2:15]
Alexey Stroganov
In previous comment test was OLTP_RO.
[13 Mar 2014 17:48]
Sveta Smirnova
Version 5.1 is not supported anymore. Additionally many regression performance bug reports were fixed last years, so closing this one as "Can't repeat". If you are able to repeat similar regression with newer version feel free to open new report and provide options you used to start MySQL server.

Description: sysbench OLTP_RO/RW results obtained for 5.0.70,5.1.30,6.0.8 show that there is scalability problem in 5.1/6.0 servers when number of threads is bigger than 16. Tests were run on box with 8 Cores Xeon E5345@2.33GHz, 16 GB RAM, SLES 10, kernel 2.6.16.21-0.8-smp, ext3, RAID 10 # Test: OLTP_RW # 5.0.70 5.1.30 6.0.8 # Thread INNODB MYISAM INNODB MYISAM INNODB MYISAM 4 1470.31 445.82 1542.00 430.95 1423.40 402.70 16 1178.43 445.16 1141.72 434.07 1095.46 399.26 64 908.71 425.95 702.14 425.00 741.03 394.34 128 884.21 425.27 723.79 421.60 806.41 392.19 256 587.87 420.84 859.27 422.82 907.35 390.78 # Test: OLTP_RO # 5.0.70 5.1.30 6.0.8 # Thread INNODB MYISAM INNODB MYISAM INNODB MYISAM . 4 2336.25 1521.62 2160.60 1786.66 1888.82 1542.03 16 1607.39 1326.62 1641.58 1264.85 1613.59 1129.71 64 1966.02 1454.23 1111.94 1087.90 1069.50 1118.89 128 1803.99 1639.08 1038.17 1194.25 1082.61 1021.47 256 1610.24 1674.16 1136.98 1273.71 1242.43 1080.94 How to repeat: Run sysbench-0.4.8 as following: OLTP_RO sysbench-0.4.8 --num-threads=(4,16...) --test=oltp --oltp-table-size=1000000 --oltp-dist-type=uniform --oltp-table-name=sbtest --init-rng=on --max-requests=0 --max-time=300 --mysql-host=127.0.0.1 --mysql-user=root --mysql-port=3306 --mysql-db=sbtest --mysql-table-engine=(MYISAM|INNODB) --oltp-read-only=on run OLTP_RW sysbench-0.4.8 --num-threads=(4,16,...) --test=oltp --oltp-table-size=1000000 --oltp-dist-type=uniform --oltp-table-name=sbtest --init-rng=on --max-requests=0 --max-time=300 --mysql-host=127.0.0.1 --mysql-user=root --mysql-port=3306 --mysql-db=sbtest --mysql-table-engine=(MYISAM|INNODB) --oltp-read-only=off run