These are interesting results. Did you try tuning any of the jemalloc options in /etc/malloc.conf?
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Daniel Bilik <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:03:27 +0100 > Davide D'Amico <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, I'm doing performance tests on a DELL R720, follows dmesg: > > ... > > I will use this server as a mysql-5.6 dbserver so I have a root > > partition using a hw raid1 and a /DATAZFS partition, follows > > configuration: > > ... > > Well, it seems to be interesting coincidence... We've just finished > benchmarking MySQL with various (m)allocators. The goal was to test > tcmalloc, but when the system was up and running, we've taken the > opportunity to benchmark also other alternatives... including jemalloc. > All tests were performed on default MySQL 5.5.28 running on Debian Wheezy. > Between the tests nothing was touched on the machine or the system, just > allocators were changed (ie. mysqld restarted). > > Results for different test modes are available here... > > http://neosystem.cz/benchmark/mysql/ > > It seems there is notable performance penalty for read-only transactions > when MySQL is using jemalloc. The more concurrent threads are running, the > more is jemalloc losing to other allocators. The penalty is also there for > read-write transactions, but not that significant (error bars in the > histograms also show that results for read-write tests tend to be very > unstable). OTOH in non-transactional tests, jemalloc seems to be in par > with others, and under specific load can even outperform some of them. > > In your original post, there is not mentioned in what mode you've performed > OLTP test, but according to numbers I suspect it was "complex", ie. > transactional. Can you repeat tests (both on CentOS and FreeBSD) with > --oltp-test-mode=nontrx and/or simple? > > -- > Daniel Bilik > neosystem.cz > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > [email protected]" > -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
