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Friday, 16 October, 2009
MySQL Performance: Current performance levels of 5.4, XtraDB-8 and Innodb-1.0.4 @dbSTRESS
This is a short post just to make a point on the current performance level of available InnoDB engine implementations. I've made the current testing not in the goal to isolate performance issues, but to see how well the code works now when it meets the business constrain to flush on every transaction!..
The problem is that I've tested recently Oracle 10g with dbSTRESS during several customer's demands and was curious how well MySQL competes now with Oracle :-)) Due Oracle license restrictions I cannot present any Oracle results here (sorry folks, I still need my job :-)) But I've put MySQL into the similar conditions and was curious to see what is the current performance level we may expect on the same platform..
Until now I've always used "innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 2" setting as I expected to isolate internal bottlenecks rather my storage array - but now it'll be "innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1". Bin log is not used (let's suppose we have a very secure storage array :-))
Setting innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1 changing a lot of thing - the workload become fully I/O-bound! - all will depends now how fast redo log is able to flush to disk!
dbSTRESS Scenario :
- 32 user sessions
- Read+Write workload (RW=1), no think time
- Read transaction contains 2 selects
- Write transaction contains 3 independent auto-commint orders: DELETE, INSERT, UPDATE
- Database contains 10M objects, 200M history records
- Test duration: 1 hour
H/W configuration :
- M5000 splitted in 2 zones: each zone attached to 16 own CPU cores, one zone runs MySQL, another dbSTRESS
- Storage array: ST6140 - splitted into 2 RAID1 LUNs, one keeps /DATA, another /LOG, cache on controller helps a lot!
MySQL configuration :
[mysqld] table_open_cache = 8000
# files innodb_file_per_table innodb_log_group_home_dir=/LOG innodb_log_file_size=1024M innodb_log_files_in_group = 3
# buffers innodb_buffer_pool_size=12000M innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=20M innodb_log_buffer_size=8M
# tune innodb_checksums=0 innodb_doublewrite=0 innodb_support_xa=0 innodb_thread_concurrency = 0 innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1 innodb_flush_method= O_DIRECT innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct=40
# perf special innodb_adaptive_checkpoint / innodb_adaptive_flushing = 1 innodb_read_io_threads = 16 innodb_write_io_threads = 16 innodb_io_capacity = 2000
Notes:
- On XtraDB you have to disable innodb_adaptive_flushing to be able to use innodb_adaptive_checkpoint
- The innodb_thread_concurrency is set to zero as the current thread concurrency model is not taking care if thread is doing an I/O operation or not (see InnoDB concurrency models for more details)..
Results
the same test was executed for:
- InnoDB-plugin-1.0.4 (Innodb-4 on the graph
- XtraDB-8
- MySQL 5.4 default (5.4-def)
- MySQL 5.4 patched (5.4-patched)
Observations:
- Of course we are far here from previously observed 12.000 TPS :-) now we're flushing on each commit!
- INSERT and UPDATE response times are making the difference
- Surprisingly recently announced XtraDB-8 was performed slower rather InnoDB-plugin-1.0.4 - I think there should be something probably missed within the current code (specially when you discovering all new features prepared by Percona! :-)), but well, the gap is small, but present..
- MySQL 5.4 default version performs slower too, and even if it jumps to the higher TPS number it's lacking of stability..
- MySQL 5.4-patched - is the default version with separated purge thread patch applied (see the full report for more details) - it performs better than InnoDB-plugin-1.0.4 as well demonstrating a very stable performance due separated and non-blocking purge activity.
I think there are the last results with these versions, but I'll keep them as the reference for next new coming changes :-)
Any comments are welcome! :-)
(but, please, don't ask me about Oracle
results :-))
UPDATE: due several code revisions and tarball uploads of XtraDB sources on the Percona site, it seems I did not test the latest XtraDB-8 code and this explains observed performance difference (see my comments below in discussion with Yasufumi).. More results to come.
Friday, 02 October, 2009
Performance Trainings & Conferences in Kiev
Last week I've participated in several Performance Conferences and Trainings in Kiev. Events mainly were dedicated to the latest improvements within MySQL performance, as well Solaris and Oracle tuning / performance analyzing and best practices. The week was very hot :-) but I've enjoyed every day discussing with creative and smart people! People hungry on knowledge and ready to stay 2 hours more overnight outpassing all allowed timing - it was a real pleasure to share all I know! :-))
So, I'd like to thank all participants! As well Sun@Kiev and i-Klass teams who organized and prepared all these events! I may only wish to see such events more and more often, and don't forget to invite me again! :-))
NOTE : similar conference about MySQL performance improvement will be organized soon in Paris - so if you're interesting in (and speaking French :-)) - please, contact me ahead, we'll need to know the size of the auditorium to be able to have seats for everybody :-))
After all that said, here are few images from the "road notes" and my slides or other materials used by me during presentations (as promised)...
Kiev Polytechnic Institute
25 years ago I came here expecting to be accepted as a new student.. And
spent 6 years of my life to study maths, computers, programming, as well
many other topics (even if some of them were here only to develop your
brain and did not have any real usage :-)) I was invited to discuss
about of databases scalability and the latest improvement made in MySQL
performance. The conference was prepared to celebrate the Software
Freedom Day in KPI ...
After so many years, entering the Main campus building was so impressive.. The Main Auditorium in this building should still remember so many famous names ... Did I expect one day to find myself on the podium and presenting my work to others?.. :-)) Initial stress was very high.. but discussing and presenting to students was so fun - that in few minutes I've got a feeling I'm speaking with old friends, and everything goes just fine :-))
Presentations :
- Databases & Scalability slides
-
MySQL
Performance slides
MySQL Performance conference @i-Klass
i-Klass is very well placed in Kiev near and face to the one of the most famous and beautiful Church in Kiev - Kiev Pechersk Lavra - simply must to visit if you're traveling in Kiev :-)) BTW, there is also a famous museum of micro miniatures (the world's smallest chess board you may see on following photo). Also, did I say you the food is absolutely excellent in Kiev?.. ;-)
i-Klass is a very good partner of Sun, and for such event they prepared their bigger conference hall accepting near 350 persons. The event itself was very successful as nobody left till the end :-)) as well a big part of participants preferred to stay one or two hours more again but do not miss the last uncovered topics :-) As well I was surprised to discover Percona presence even in Kiev! :-)) And I'm still waiting for photos from this event :-))
Presentations :
- MySQL Performance slides
- DTrace & MySQL slides from Joyent
Solaris Performance Monitoring & Analyze @i-Klass
Two next days covered Solaris performance and Oracle-oriented system tuning. We expected 20 persons for each event as practice lab supposed to have a Solaris desktop on the desk and there was not too much place in the room. But finally we got 45 persons every day and most of people came with their own laptop running Solaris! :-))
I've enjoyed all the time during these trainings and was happy to see so many strong engineers loving Sun technology and proud of their choices! :-) Some partners and customers I've already met during their benchmarks in Paris :-) All other are always welcome to test and improve performance of their applications in our Sun Solution Centers !!!
Also, one of the fun events was a direct connection with our Paris office and presenting live (with my colleague Matthieu) the demo of Automated Dynamic Reconfiguration with LDOMs! It was absolutely fantastic seating in two different locations and work all together as a one single team! Seems we made a new step in our activity :-))
Note : Last day due Internet connection problems we did not finish our stress testing with Oracle in Solaris zones - all who still want to participate in the remote testing please contact me before next Tuesday, because on Tuesday we'll replay live all programmed tests! :-))
Presentations :
- Solaris Performance slides
- Pools & Zones Overview slides
- LDOMs Training slides by Maria AVILA (Sun Solution Center)
-
Automated
Dynamic Reconfiguration (ADR) via dim_STAT slides
Bye, bye...
Thanks again to all participants and see you next time! :-))
Categories: dim_STAT, Linux, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Solaris, Tools/ dbSTRESS