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Testing MySQL 8.0.16 on Skylake with innodb_spin_wait_pause_multiplier

HammerDB

However in the Skylake microarchitecture (you can see a list of CPUs here ) the PAUSE instruction changed and in the documentation it says “the latency of the PAUSE instruction in prior generation microarchitectures is about 10 cycles, whereas in Skylake microarchitecture it has been extended to as many as 140 cycles.”

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HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported. . Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Steve Shaw. Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Steve Shaw. /cpupower frequency-info analyzing CPU 0: . driver: intel_pstate CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 . hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 3.80 GHz. .

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

The caching of data pages and grouping of log records helps remove much, if not all, of the command latency associated with a write operation. Action Description Manual Checkpoint – Target Specified I/O latency target set to ​​ the default ​​ of ​​ 20ms.

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