On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 19:01, Greg Whalin wrote: > What drives are you using? For SCSI RAID, you definitly want deadline > scheduler. That said, even after the switch to deadline, we saw our > Opteron's running way slow (compared to older slower Xeons). Whatever > the problem is, we fought it for quite a while (though difficult to test > too much w/ production dbs) and ended up rolling back to 2.4.
One more thing to try, if you have smart RAID would be "noop" scheduler, to let hardware to do the job. Smart optimizations OS do to reduce head movement may not make sense for RAID. In practice I've however seen close results. Also which storage engine are you using ? One of the things which was changed in 2.6 for some hardware configurations is fsync() performance. It was cases in some cases, so it was instant. This for example explained in many cases why people moving from IDE devices to much faster SCSI devices may observe performance degradation (IDE with 2.4 has typically fake fsync) In general we have very positive feedback from using Opterons with MySQL at this point. Sometimes it takes time to make it work right, especially it was the case when they were new but when it flies. Practically same applies to EM64T - It is very good to have now two inexpensive 64bit platforms available. We're getting some feedback about problems on some Fedora Core versions, well this is "bleeding edge" distribution so I'm nothing but surprised. SuSE both in SLES and Professional variants seems to work very well with Opterons as well as recent RH EL. Speaking about MySQL problems - if you have any MySQL issues on Opterons, please report them as bugs and we'll troubleshoot it. > > Kevin Burton wrote: > > Kevin Burton wrote: > > > >> Greg Whalin wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> Deadline was much faster. Using sysbench: > >>> > >>> test: > >>> sysbench --num-threads=16 --test=fileio --file-total-size=20G > >>> --file-test-mode=rndrw run > >> > >> > >> > > So... FYI. I rebooted with elevator=deadline as a kernel param. > > > > db2:~# cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler > > noop anticipatory [deadline] cfq > > > > (which I assume means I'm now running deadline. Is there any other way > > to find out?) > > > > And no performance diff. Note that you're benchmarks only show a 20M > > addition overhead. We're about 60x too slow for these drives so I'm not > > sure what could be going on here :-/ > > > > Kevin > > -- Peter Zaitsev, Senior Performance Engineer Come to hear my talk at MySQL UC 2005 http://www.mysqluc.com/ MySQL AB, www.mysql.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
