Archive for the 'percona' Category

InnoDB Flushing: Theory and solutions – MySQL Performance Blog

Friday, April 29th, 2011

blog posts that describes how MySQL InnoDB flushes data to disk (also see bgwriter, checkpoint_* parameters in PostgreSQL)

MySQL Benchmarks – MySQL 5.0.92 vs 5.1.55 vs 5.5.10 vs Percona 5.1.55 vs Percona 5.5.8 vs MariaDB 5.2.5 | vbtechsupport.com

Saturday, April 23rd, 2011

Sysbench-based benchmark comparing OLTP workloads for different builds and forks of MySQL on 64-core intel machine (Quad Intel Xeon L7555 ) . Only one definitive result is that MySQL cannot scale beyond 8 or 16 cores, or in some cases beyond just 2 cor…