In the last episode (Apr 22), Rod Heyd said:
> I've been running mysql on a T1000 (Ultrasparc T1) system for several
> years now, and while I've been happy with the performance overall, the
> poor floating point capability on these systems has been a disappointment.
> Recently, I got my hands on a Sunfire T5420 system and I've been comparing
> the floating point performance on this system with the T1000, and was
> expecting to see a significant improvement in floating point by virtue of
> the fact that the Ultrasparc T2 processor has 1 FPU per core as opposed to
> 1 FPU per CPU. However, I'm only seeing a marginal improvement for
> floating point calculations, for example, a "select benchmark(100000000,
> 1.0 + 2.0)" takes roughly 50 seconds to run on both of these systems,
> however I was expecting a lot better performance from the T2 processor.
If you are running just one command, then you are only using one of the 8
FPUs on the T2. Try comparing 8 parallel "select benchmark(100000000, 1.0 +
2.0)" runs at once on each server.
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