Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-16 Thread Chris
On 15/10/06, Eric Hodel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Oct 13, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:49:04AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> On Oct 13, 2006, at 11:26 AM, Eric Hodel wrote: > Or did that change recently? It's only on certain systems, appare

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 07:05:28PM +0100, Chris wrote: > On 15/10/06, Eric Hodel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Oct 13, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:49:04AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > >>> On Oct 13, 2006, at 11:26 AM, Eric Hodel wrote: > >> Or did t

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-14 Thread Eric Hodel
On Oct 13, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:49:04AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 13, 2006, at 11:26 AM, Eric Hodel wrote: Or did that change recently? It's only on certain systems, apparently. Is there a list of systems where it is safe to use the TSC w

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-14 Thread Jerry Bell
I will do some testing tonight with variations in the my.cnf file and post the results tomorrow. > At 03:20 PM 10/6/2006, Jerry Bell wrote: >>I have actually made the changes to my.cnf before I ran these. I >> expanded >>them quite a bit beyond what is in my-large.cnf. I need to pull them >> bac

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:20 PM 10/6/2006, Jerry Bell wrote: I have actually made the changes to my.cnf before I ran these. I expanded them quite a bit beyond what is in my-large.cnf. I need to pull them back Hi, I was just looking at this thread as its relevant to a new DB server I am trying to put tog

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:49:04AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Oct 13, 2006, at 11:26 AM, Eric Hodel wrote: > >>>Or did that change recently? > >> > >>It's only on certain systems, apparently. > > > >Is there a list of systems where it is safe to use the TSC with > >SMP? Or some script we ca

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 13, 2006, at 11:26 AM, Eric Hodel wrote: Or did that change recently? It's only on certain systems, apparently. Is there a list of systems where it is safe to use the TSC with SMP? Or some script we can run? The problem of the TSC clocks getting out of sync affects pretty much a

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-13 Thread Eric Hodel
On Oct 12, 2006, at 1:53 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:25:48AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Jerry Bell wrote: I have a Dell PE2950 with 2 dual core 3.73Ghz processors and 4G of ram. [...] changed the clock to TSC As far as I know, it is unsafe to use TSC on SMP systems.

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:25:48AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Jerry Bell wrote: > > I have a Dell PE2950 with 2 dual core 3.73Ghz processors and 4G of ram. > > [...] > > changed the clock to TSC > > As far as I know, it is unsafe to use TSC on SMP systems. > > Or did that change recently?

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jerry Bell wrote: > I have a Dell PE2950 with 2 dual core 3.73Ghz processors and 4G of ram. > [...] > changed the clock to TSC As far as I know, it is unsafe to use TSC on SMP systems. Or did that change recently? Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-06 Thread Jerry Bell
I have actually made the changes to my.cnf before I ran these. I expanded them quite a bit beyond what is in my-large.cnf. I need to pull them back in to save on some memory usage. I'm going to look at some of the other patches that have been suggested to me to see if they'll work and if they ma

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-06 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Divacky Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Fri, 6 Oct 2006 09:57:38 +0200): On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:52:51PM -0400, Jerry Bell wrote: I have a Dell PE2950 with 2 dual core 3.73Ghz processors and 4G of ram. I've looked through some of the lists here and have seen super-smack results in

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-06 Thread Divacky Roman
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:52:51PM -0400, Jerry Bell wrote: > I have a Dell PE2950 with 2 dual core 3.73Ghz processors and 4G of ram. > I've looked through some of the lists here and have seen super-smack > results in the 42k qps range on a 2 dual core opteron system. I'm able to > get up to abou

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-06 Thread Michael Vince
Yeah the static compiling recommendations by MySQL documents are really more a linux thing more then anything else. The other other thing to check is to make sure you use larger buffer settings I recommend the large-my.cnf cp /usr/local/share/mysql/my-large.cnf /var/db/mysql/ Then restart MySQL.

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-05 Thread David Xu
On Friday 06 October 2006 07:24, Jerry Bell wrote: > I always thougt that compiling something static increased performance, but > then that's probably true for things that have to startup and shutdown > frequently. > > Thanks again. > > Jerry > static compiling will link libpthread but not libthr.

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-05 Thread Jerry Bell
Many thanks to all who responded. You are an incredibly smart group of people. The recompiling without static yielded much better results: 2950# super-smack -d mysql select-key-mysql.smack 10 1 Query Barrel Report for client smacker1 connect: max=1ms min=0ms avg= 0ms from 10 clients Query_t

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-05 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Jerry Bell wrote: I have a Dell PE2950 with 2 dual core 3.73Ghz processors and 4G of ram. I've looked through some of the lists here and have seen super-smack results in the 42k qps range on a 2 dual core opteron system. I'm able to get up to about 34k with the wide at the back of my server wh

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-05 Thread Sven Petai
On Thursday 05 October 2006 03:52, Jerry Bell wrote: > I expected the 2950 to be a bit closer to the 1.8Ghz opteron discussed > here: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.performance/1137/match=mysql Well he used several patches [1] from the current + ULE scheduler, which seems to give you

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-05 Thread Henrik Lidström
Jerry Bell skrev: I have a Dell PE2950 with 2 dual core 3.73Ghz processors and 4G of ram. I've looked through some of the lists here and have seen super-smack results in the 42k qps range on a 2 dual core opteron system. I'm able to get up to about 34k with the wide at the back of my server whi

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-05 Thread Nick Evans
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 20:52:51 -0400 (EDT) "Jerry Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Dell PE2950 with 2 dual core 3.73Ghz processors and 4G of ram. > I've looked through some of the lists here and have seen super-smack > results in the 42k qps range on a 2 dual core opteron system. I'm abl

Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-05 Thread Jerry Bell
I have a Dell PE2950 with 2 dual core 3.73Ghz processors and 4G of ram. I've looked through some of the lists here and have seen super-smack results in the 42k qps range on a 2 dual core opteron system. I'm able to get up to about 34k with the wide at the back of my server whilest rubbing the sid