Re: SMP performance degradation with sysbench

From: Hiro Yoshioka
Date: Mon Feb 26 2007 - 19:32:29 EST


Howdy,

MySQL 5.0.26 had some scalability issues and it solved since 5.0.32
http://ossipedia.ipa.go.jp/capacity/EV0612260303/
(written in Japanese but you may read the graph. We compared
5.0.24 vs 5.0.32)

The following is oprofile data
==> cpu=8-mysql=5.0.32-gcc=3.4/oprofile-eu=2200-op=default-none/opreport-l.txt
<==
CPU: Core Solo / Duo, speed 2666.76 MHz (estimated)
Counted CPU_CLK_UNHALTED events (Unhalted clock cycles) with a unit
mask of 0x00 (Unhalted core cycles) count 100000
samples % app name symbol name
47097502 16.8391 libpthread-2.3.4.so pthread_mutex_trylock
19636300 7.0207 libpthread-2.3.4.so pthread_mutex_unlock
18600010 6.6502 mysqld rec_get_offsets_func
18121328 6.4790 mysqld btr_search_guess_on_hash
11453095 4.0949 mysqld row_search_for_mysql

MySQL tries to get a mutex but it spends about 16.8% of CPU on 8 core
machine.

I think there are a lot of room to be inproved in MySQL implementation.

On 2/27/07, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:04:01PM -0600, Pete Harlan wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:36:04AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > I found a couple of interesting issues so far. Firstly, the MySQL
> > version that I'm using (5.0.26-Max) is making lots of calls to
>
> FYI, MySQL fixed some scalability problems in version 5.0.30, as
> mentioned here:
>
> http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/01/03/innodb-benchmarks/
>
> It may be worth using more recent sources than 5.0.26 if tracking down
> scaling problems in MySQL.

The blog post that originated this discussion ran tests on 5.0.33
Not that the mysql version should really matter. The key point here
is that FreeBSD and Linux were running the *same* version, and
FreeBSD was able to handle the situation better somehow.

Dave

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Hiro
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