Jochem van Dieten wrote:
> On 12/19/06, David Sparks wrote:
>> I noticed an interesting benchmark at tweakers.net that shows mysql not
>> scaling very well on hyperthreading and multicore cpus (see links at end
>> of email).
>>
>> Does anyone know what engine they are using for their tests? (Innodb,
>> myisam, berkdb heheh)
> 
> InnoDB, the first installment of the series of tests had the following
> configuration: http://tweakers.net/reviews/620/2

I don't see where they say what engine they use, I just see that they
slightly tuned up a few Innodb parameters.  They also tuned up myisam
parameters so the configuration section doesn't really answer that question.


> And I would venture that these results are not because they did
> horrible things to their MySQL configuration. On the second
> installment of the series http://tweakers.net/reviews/633/7 engineers
> from Sun were brought in and they consulted with engineers from MySQL
> and on the last installment Peter Zaitsev of the MySQL Performance
> Blog did a review of their configuration:
> http://tweakers.net/reviews/660/6

So its confirmed that mysql has serious problems scaling on concurrent
hardware (both hyperthreading, multicore, and multiple cpu).

This sucks ... our newest DB server is 2x dualcore.

ds

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