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How to Assess MySQL Performance

HammerDB

Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. Benchmarking the target Two of the more popular database benchmarks for MySQL are HammerDB and sysbench. For storage, FIO is generally used. 4.22 %usr 38.40

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

So in 1988 I joined the Sun sales force and became a Systems Engineer (nowadays we would say Solutions Architect). Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched.

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Percona Database Performance Blog 2018 Year in Review: Top Blog Posts

Percona

Linux OS Tuning for MySQL Database Performance. In this post we will review the most important Linux settings to adjust for performance tuning and optimization of a MySQL database server. We’ll note how some of the Linux parameter settings used OS tuning may vary according to different system types: physical, virtual or cloud.

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The Most Important MySQL Setting

Percona

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? To be fair, that is also true with PostgreSQL; it hasn’t been tuned either, and it, too, can also perform much better.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). I happened to be speaking at a technical confering while still debugging this, and mentioned what I was working on to a processor engineer. include <sys/time.h>

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The top 5 reasons to run your own database benchmarks

HammerDB

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

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How to improve Redo, Transaction Log and WAL throughput for HammerDB benchmarks

HammerDB

This post at an entry-level discusses the options you have to improve log throughput in your benchmark environment. . The first example shows a data load, the second a TPC-C based workload with 5 virtual users and the 2nd example with 10 virtual users. A good example of how tuning is an iterative process. PostgreSQL.