Re: MySQL Performance Degrades Significantly Over Time

2006-12-06 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Daniel, We were using a software RAID-5 on top of hardware RAID-5 across 3 4-disk volume groups. (1 LUN from each array volume group built the software RAID-5). So we were able to lose 3 disks in a worst case scenario. It seems to me that neither RAID-1 or RAID-5 can lose more than one disk w

Re: MySQL Performance Degrades Significantly Over Time

2006-12-04 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 12/4/06, Jason J. W. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Daniel, Thank you very much for your help and advice. After some examination, we discovered a couple of things. It looks like our storage array layout was really bad for the IOPS MySQL was throwing at it, as a result the InnoDB trans

Re: MySQL Performance Degrades Significantly Over Time

2006-12-03 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Daniel, Thank you very much for your help and advice. After some examination, we discovered a couple of things. It looks like our storage array layout was really bad for the IOPS MySQL was throwing at it, as a result the InnoDB transactions started to back-up under heavy load. Changing the arr

Re: MySQL Performance Degrades Significantly Over Time

2006-11-27 Thread Dan Buettner
Jason, in addition to Daniel's suggestions, I'll throw this out there: I had a somewhat similar problem with a database I used to own, where a handful of very hard-hit tables would become progressively slower over time, despite the fact that (due to daily archiving and purging) they were not grow

Re: MySQL Performance Degrades Significantly Over Time

2006-11-27 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 11/27/06, Jason J. W. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, We're running MySQL 5.0.27 under Solaris 10 on both Opteron and UltraSparc T1 machines. The performance on both boxes starts out great when the process is fresh, however over the course of a week of heavy use the performance degrad

MySQL Performance Degrades Significantly Over Time

2006-11-27 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi, We're running MySQL 5.0.27 under Solaris 10 on both Opteron and UltraSparc T1 machines. The performance on both boxes starts out great when the process is fresh, however over the course of a week of heavy use the performance degrades to the point where its nearly unusable. The Opteron has 2G