Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

Philip M. Gollucci philip at ridecharge.com
Mon Sep 17 13:31:00 PDT 2007


Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Josh Carroll wrote:
>>> That's good to know.  You should be using libthr for threaded
>>> performance though :)  That benchmark is probably almost all userland
>>> though, so performance may not suffer much from libpthread.
>> Oh I wasn't sure if libthr was the preferred thread library for 6.2
>> also (I'd heard that was the case for -CURRENT).
>>
>> I should look into whether ffmpeg can be built with libthr instead and
>> compare performance. Somewhat off topic, so I'll leave it at that, but
>> thanks again for the great info. I'm really looking forward to
>> 7.0-RELEASE, obviously :)
> 
> Yeah, it is preferred on 6.x too (libkse has truly atrocious
> performance).  It's trivial to change it over, just add an entry to
> /etc/libmap.conf:
Really?  I didn't you you were supposed to switch until 7.0 -- were the
libthr chnages MFC'd and I missed it ?

I've read
http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/mysql.html
and
http://wiki.freebsd.org/MySQL

I've been following the discussions on this pretty closely on lists.

PU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5310  @ 1.60GHz (1597.53-MHz
K8-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x6f7  Stepping = 7

Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>

Features2=0x4e33d<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,TM2,<b9>,CX16,<b14>,<b15>,<b18>>
  AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM>
  AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
  Cores per package: 4
real memory  = 9395240960 (8960 MB)
avail memory = 8291323904 (7907 MB)
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs

uname -a
FreeBSD hobbes.dca2.prod.rws 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0:
root at portnoy.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP  amd64

I'll recompile the kernel eventually to slim it down.

using 4BSD scheduler since its 6.2

ls -1d /var/db/pkg/mysql*
mysql-client-5.0.45
mysql-scripts-5.0.45
mysql-server-5.0.45

ldd /usr/local/libexec/mysqld
mysqld:
        libz.so.3 => /lib/libz.so.3 (0x800a5c000)
        libwrap.so.4 => /usr/lib/libwrap.so.4 (0x800b70000)
        libcrypt.so.3 => /lib/libcrypt.so.3 (0x800c79000)
        libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x800d92000)
        libm.so.4 => /lib/libm.so.4 (0x800f89000)
        libpthread.so.2 => /lib/libpthread.so.2 (0x8010a5000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x8011d0000)


sysctl kern.timecounter.choice
       kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(-100) ACPI-fast(1000) i8254(0)
dummy(-1000000)

sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware
kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC

Disks are:
	1) RAID1(2 disks) OS array with mysql logs, replication logs,
		and innodb logs.
	2) RAID1+0(6disks) innodb mysql data.
	3) /tmp is a md0 malloc backed device
	(I'm thinking of using tmpfs in 7.0 when I switch)

using libmap.conf to use libc_r, libpthread, and libthr were all about
equal actually for insert heavy operations.

my.cnf
innodb_thread_concurrency = 8

At 16 aka core*2 'show innodb status' showed too much mutex locking and
dropping it had drastic improvements -- despite mysql recommending the
2x value.

innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 0
Also helped about 7% but thats due to disk speeds.

I can run an oltp sysbench on it if you would like.



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