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[MARK CALLAGHAN <mdcallag@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Michael Widenius<monty@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
>>>>>> "MARK" == MARK CALLAGHAN <mdcallag@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> MARK> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Giuseppe Maxia <g.maxia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I am doing some tests with Maria. Out of the box, without any tuning,
>>> the load of records (with multiple record INSERT statements) is 5
>>> times slower than MyISAM, 4 times slower than InnoDB.
>
> MARK> I tested Maria with sysbench and it was many times slower than other engines.
>
> Yes, if you are using transactions=1 and short records or a lot of
> updates/deletes it's slower than other engines because we are still
> using table locking, we don't have group commit and we need a better
> implementation of the key cache (less locking).
>
> When running sql-bench (single threaded) we are faster than InnoDB on
> many of the tests, so at least some things are done right.
>
> As you probably know, Maria 1.5 is about correctness, not speed.  I
> belive that it's critical to first get things to work correctly before
> you starting to optimize.
>
> We are working on fixing many of the issues in Maria 2.0; Sanja pushed
> group commit some time ago in MariaDB 5.2 and this should improve
> stuff a bit, but we know there is a long way to go before we are in
> par with InnoDB. We will get a better picture as soon as we have the
> transactional part in as then we can get rid of the table locking
> problem.
>
> Regards,
> Monty
>

Are there any useful (to maria developers) performance tests we can
run? If we limit all tests to 1 user (no concurrency) are the results
useful?



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Mark Callaghan
mdcallag@xxxxxxxxx