As i recall, mysql under FreeBSD 4.x used a userland threads
library. That means its only capable of being scheduled on 1 cpu at
a time and each thread is part of one process. I don't think SMP
will help you much in this case. There have been a number of threads
on some of the lists (hacker@ ?) in the last few months about MySQL
performance indicating it might have something to do with the timer,
etc. It might be worth looking into.
Some people have stated that FreeBSD 5 and 6 are slower with disk io,
etc. Plus you've got a raid 1 mirror which will slow down writes.
6.1 also has a reported issue with the 4bsd scheduler performance.
Maybe thats part of the problem?
On Mar 30, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Eric wrote:
Mail NETvigieHi all,
I buy a new DELL PowerEdge 1850 with Bi-Xeon 2.8GHZ/2*2MB Dual Core
800FSB processor, 2Go DDR2 RAM, PERC4di RAID controller with 2 SCSI
U320 15.000tpm 36Go hdd on RAID1.
I install on it Freebsd 6.0, apache 2.2.0 and mysql 4.1.18 and
compare performance with :
OLD PowerEDge with only simple Bi-Xeon 3.0 GHZ and freebsd 4.11.
The test is simple mysql query done by php script.
Result is that test is two time slower with freebsd 6.0 and dual-
core than with old server.
I try with and without smp and threaded kernel and results are same.
I came back to Generic kernel to see if it come from my kernel
configuration but result was same.
I then though it come from server and try to upgrade an other one
and have same result.
I then think it come from 6.0 and try with 6.1 beta4 and see same
result
I then downgrad to 4.11 without smp and then find good perfs.
So I just add to 4.11 generic kernel :
options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor
Kernel
options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O
And then perf go back down from 30secondes to 54 sec.
I search a lot on internet and try with this : sysctl
machdep.cpu_idle_hlt=0
But result is same.
When doing whith smp top it's just as mysql have to wait to have
cpu. During 10,20 sec it just go to 2,4% then grow. Without smp it
grow very quickly.
Does anyone know what's go wrong and what do I have to do to have
same perf with smp than without?
Thanks,
Eric.
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