Re: MySQL runs on 16-cores server

2009-04-16 Thread Moon's Father
Thanks for you reply. I read the official document and found the variable called "thread_concurrency" could only affect on solaris. On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 5:04 AM, mos wrote: > At 06:00 AM 4/10/2009, you wrote: > >> Hi. >> If the server has 16 cores, how to set parameters to make MySQL runs

RE: MySQL runs on 16-cores server

2009-04-15 Thread genie.japo
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RE: MySQL runs on 16-cores server

2009-04-14 Thread Mark
-Original Message- From: baron.schwa...@gmail.com [mailto:baron.schwa...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Baron Schwartz Sent: dinsdag 14 april 2009 15:18 To: mos Cc: Jerry Schwartz; Andy Smith; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: MySQL runs on 16-cores server Mike, > Now the SSD that I would l

Re: MySQL runs on 16-cores server

2009-04-14 Thread Baron Schwartz
Mike, > Now the SSD that I would like to have is the Hyperdrive 5 from > http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/. It is a DDR SSD and each drive has slots > for 8 DIMM's which means it can hold up to 32GB (64GB if you can find 8GB > DDR2's) per drive. They can be striped to give you a heck of a lot of dr

Re: MySQL runs on 16-cores server

2009-04-13 Thread mos
At 02:21 PM 4/13/2009, Baron Schwartz wrote: Mike, > MySQL does not scale well beyond 4 processors, at least not like PostgreSql > does. MySQL seems to hit a plateau rather quickly. If XtraDb's modified > Innodb plugin scales better, then fine. But I haven't seen any benchmarks > showing the sp

Re: MySQL runs on 16-cores server

2009-04-13 Thread Baron Schwartz
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:34 PM, David Sparks wrote: >> Right now if you want a more scalable *current* version of >> MySQL, you need to look to the Google patches, the Percona builds (and >> Percona XtraDB, a fork of InnoDB), or OurDelta builds. > > Is there a webpage somewhere that compares and

Re: MySQL runs on 16-cores server

2009-04-13 Thread David Sparks
> Right now if you want a more scalable *current* version of > MySQL, you need to look to the Google patches, the Percona builds (and > Percona XtraDB, a fork of InnoDB), or OurDelta builds. Is there a webpage somewhere that compares and contrasts the above patchsets? I thought the Google patches

RE: MySQL runs on 16-cores server

2009-04-13 Thread Wm Mussatto
On Mon, April 13, 2009 11:55, mos wrote: > Jerry, > > At 09:53 AM 4/13/2009, Jerry Schwartz wrote: >>Sorry for top-posting, but this is getting unwieldy. >> >>The problems with hardware in multiprocessor systems have been dealt with >>long since, assuming that Intel, AMD, et al have implemented the

Re: MySQL runs on 16-cores server

2009-04-13 Thread Baron Schwartz
Mike, > MySQL does not scale well beyond 4 processors, at least not like PostgreSql > does. MySQL seems to hit a plateau rather quickly. If XtraDb's modified > Innodb plugin scales better, then fine.  But I haven't seen any benchmarks > showing the speed improvements relative to the number of proc

RE: MySQL runs on 16-cores server

2009-04-13 Thread mos
ent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 5:07 PM >To: Andy Smith >Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com >Subject: Re: MySQL runs on 16-cores server > >At 08:27 AM 4/11/2009, Andy Smith wrote: >>Hi, >> >> In what way can having more cores slow down MySQL (or any other app >>for that

RE: MySQL runs on 16-cores server

2009-04-13 Thread Jerry Schwartz
FAX: 860.674.8341   www.the-infoshop.com www.giiexpress.com www.etudes-marche.com >-Original Message- >From: mos [mailto:mo...@fastmail.fm] >Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 5:07 PM >To: Andy Smith >Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com >Subject: Re: MySQL runs on 16-cores server >

Re: MySQL runs on 16-cores server

2009-04-11 Thread mos
At 08:27 AM 4/11/2009, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, In what way can having more cores slow down MySQL (or any other app for that matter)? Are you simlpy referring to the fact that some mutlicore servers might be slower in single threaded preformance than a higher clocked single core system? If I have

Re: Re: MySQL runs on 16-cores server

2009-04-11 Thread Ken Jacobs
Andy, one reason (in addition to slower clock speeds per core) that a system with more cores might be slower than an equivalently fast single processor is memory bandwidth and communications bottlenecks between cores. Synchronization of multiple database processes and accesses to shared data a

Re: MySQL runs on 16-cores server

2009-04-11 Thread Baron Schwartz
MySQL isn't multi-process, it's single-process and multi-threaded. A lot of work is going into making it scale better on SMP machines. Much of this is to be released in future versions of MySQL. The Drizzle developers are also doing a lot of good work, but that's in Drizzle. Right now if you wan

Re: MySQL runs on 16-cores server

2009-04-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, In what way can having more cores slow down MySQL (or any other app for that matter)? Are you simlpy referring to the fact that some mutlicore servers might be slower in single threaded preformance than a higher clocked single core system? If I have a mutlicore system with fast sing

Re: MySQL runs on 16-cores server

2009-04-11 Thread Uwe Kiewel
Moon's Father wrote: > Thank you very much. > Could you tell me what is IIRC? If I remember correctly. HTH, Uwe > > > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Uwe Kiewel wrote: > > Moon's Father wrote: > > Hi. > >If the server has 16 cores, how to set parameters to make

Re: MySQL runs on 16-cores server

2009-04-11 Thread mos
At 02:03 AM 4/11/2009, you wrote: Thank you very much. Could you tell me what is IIRC? IIRC = "If I Recall Correctly". I don't know why he didn't write it out in full, it would have caused less confusion. For a second there I thought he was talking about MS's predecessor to IIS. :-) Mike

Re: MySQL runs on 16-cores server

2009-04-11 Thread Moon's Father
Thank you very much. Could you tell me what is IIRC? On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Uwe Kiewel wrote: > Moon's Father wrote: > > Hi. > >If the server has 16 cores, how to set parameters to make MySQL runs > > well. > > IIRC is mysqld multi threaded - so if you have parallel queries, mys

Re: MySQL runs on 16-cores server

2009-04-10 Thread mos
At 06:00 AM 4/10/2009, you wrote: Hi. If the server has 16 cores, how to set parameters to make MySQL runs well. Any reply is appreciated. Using more cores with MySQL doesn't mean it will run faster. In fact, it could slow it down. Make sure you have done benchmarking with your current com

Re: MySQL runs on 16-cores server

2009-04-10 Thread Andrew Garner
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Wm Mussatto wrote: > On Fri, April 10, 2009 05:24, Uwe Kiewel wrote: >> Moon's Father wrote: >>> Hi. >>>    If the server has 16 cores, how to set parameters to make MySQL runs >>> well. >> >> IIRC is mysqld multi threaded - so if you have parallel queries, mysqld

Re: MySQL runs on 16-cores server

2009-04-10 Thread Wm Mussatto
On Fri, April 10, 2009 05:24, Uwe Kiewel wrote: > Moon's Father wrote: >> Hi. >>If the server has 16 cores, how to set parameters to make MySQL runs >> well. > > IIRC is mysqld multi threaded - so if you have parallel queries, mysqld > will spam multiple threads across multiple cores. ---^^

Re: MySQL runs on 16-cores server

2009-04-10 Thread Uwe Kiewel
Moon's Father wrote: > Hi. >If the server has 16 cores, how to set parameters to make MySQL runs > well. IIRC is mysqld multi threaded - so if you have parallel queries, mysqld will spam multiple threads across multiple cores. HTH, Uwe -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archive