FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

Jon Dama jd at ugcs.caltech.edu
Sat Jun 11 02:06:46 GMT 2005


Try linking mysql with ptmalloc2 (instead of the system malloc obviously).

Doing this has the side-benefit of ensuring that you don't need to mess
with MAXDSIZ.

Try linking mysql with david xu's threading library.

-Jon


On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Tom Gidden wrote:

> Hi Kris,
>
> On 10 Jun 2005, at 18:17, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> > Show your kernel config etc.
>
> I've been working with Steve on this project.  We've been playing
> with various tuning factors, including kernel changes, different
> stripe sizes on the RAID, "my.cnf" tuning, libmap.conf, and although
> we can gain a bit here and there, we can't account for the doubling
> of performance with Gentoo.  Anyway, I've included the dmesg and
> kernel config.
>
> The Gentoo install was pretty vanilla-flavoured, as neither Steve or
> I had installed Gentoo before, and both of us are pretty rusty on any
> form of Linux.
>
> Incidentally, this does not seem to be I/O-bound.  The data is big
> enough to stay in the table cache anyway.
>
> I just noticed these particular tests were done on FreeBSD without
> HTT, whereas the Gentoo test was.  However, I can tell you that in
> earlier runs, the difference between HTT and non-HTT on FreeBSD for
> this benchmark was negligible.
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
> --- [snip] ---
>
> Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project.
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>      root at lithium.lonres.com:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/PE2850_i386_4
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
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>
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> ses0: SAF-TE Compliant Device
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>
> --- [snip] ---
>
> # $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC,v 1.413 2004/08/11 01:34:18
> rwatson Exp $
>
> machine        i386
> cpu        I686_CPU
> ident        PE2850_i386_4
>
> options        MAXDSIZ=(2048UL*1024*1024)
>
> options        SCHED_4BSD
> options     INET            # InterNETworking
> options     FFS            # Berkeley Fast Filesystem
> options     SOFTUPDATES        # Enable FFS soft updates support
> options     UFS_ACL            # Support for access control lists
> options     UFS_DIRHASH        # Improve performance on big directories
> options     MSDOSFS            # MSDOS Filesystem
> options     CD9660            # ISO 9660 Filesystem
> options     PROCFS            # Process filesystem (requires PSEUDOFS)
> options     PSEUDOFS        # Pseudo-filesystem framework
> options     GEOM_GPT        # GUID Partition Tables.
> options     COMPAT_43        # Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!]
> options     COMPAT_FREEBSD4        # Compatible with FreeBSD4
> options     SCSI_DELAY=2000        # Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI
> options     KTRACE            # ktrace(1) support
> options     SYSVSHM            # SYSV-style shared memory
> options     SYSVMSG            # SYSV-style message queues
> options     SYSVSEM            # SYSV-style semaphores
> options     _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-time
> extensions
> options     KBD_INSTALL_CDEV    # install a CDEV entry in /dev
> options     ADAPTIVE_GIANT        # Giant mutex is adaptive.
>
> options        CPU_FASTER_5X86_FPU
> options     SMP        # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
> device        apic        # I/O APIC
>
> device        isa
> device        pci
>
> device        ata
> device        atadisk        # ATA disk drives
> device        atapicd        # ATAPI CDROM drives
> options     ATA_STATIC_ID    # Static device numbering
>
> device        scbus        # SCSI bus (required for SCSI)
> device        da        # Direct Access (disks)
> device        cd        # CD
> device        pass        # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access)
> device        ses        # SCSI Environmental Services (and SAF-TE)
>
> device        amr        # AMI MegaRAID (incl. PERC 4/Di, 4e/Di?)
>
> device        atkbdc        # AT keyboard controller
> device        atkbd        # AT keyboard
>
> device        vga        # VGA video card driver
> device        sc
> device        agp        # support several AGP chipsets
>
> device        npx
>
> device        sio        # 8250, 16[45]50 based serial ports
>
> # PCI Ethernet NICs.
> device        miibus        # MII bus support
> device        em        # PowerEdge 2850 onboard
> device        fxp
> device        xl
>
> device        loop        # Network loopback
> device        mem        # Memory and kernel memory devices
> device        io        # I/O device
> device        random        # Entropy device
> device        ether        # Ethernet support
> device        ppp        # Kernel PPP
> device        tun        # Packet tunnel.
> device        pty        # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
> device        md        # Memory "disks"
> device        gif        # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling
> device        bpf
>
>
>
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