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I’m continuing my experiments with different OS and today I tested FreeBSD 6.0 on my box.
(more details about box and benchmark see here https://www.percona.com/blog/2006/06/13/quick-look-at-ubuntu-606/).
Initially I was very pessimistic about FreeBSD, as results were (in transactions/sec, more is better.
for comparison the results from Suse 10.0):

InnoDB
threads FreeBSD 6 Suse 10.0 Suse/ FreeBSD ratio
1 436.97 536.91 1.23
4 322.08 816.27 2.53
16 519.94 639.05 1.23
64 crash 547.07
256 357.09
MyISAM
threads FreeBSD 6 Suse 10.0 Suse/ FreeBSD ratio
1 335.56 429.89 1.28
4 165.16 863.23 5.23
16 322.66 537.67 1.67
64 crash 516.00
256 346.65

The crash with many threads in FreeBSD is known problem and is not MySQL fault. More info is available in FreeBSD bug report

I’m not big expert in FreeBSD and did not saw http://wikitest.freebsd.org/MySQL before. This page recommends to use libthr instead of libthreads.
The results with libthr looks better:

InnoDB
threads FreeBSD 6 Suse 10.0 Suse/ FreeBSD ratio
1 483.22 536.91 1.11
4 852.21 816.27 0.96
16 748.89 639.05 0.85
64 644.45 547.07 0.85
256 273.99 357.09 1.30
MyISAM
threads FreeBSD 6 Suse 10.0 Suse/ FreeBSD ratio
1 344.72 429.89 1.25
4 531.6 863.23 1.62
16 494.19 537.67 1.09
64 451.72 516.00 1.14
256 215.84 346.65 1.61

Interesting thing with 4-64 threads FreeBSD is better than Suse in InnoDB benchmark. I think it is related to InnoDB’s implementation of syncronious primitives. For MyISAM Suse is stable better.

Configuration params:
Box: Dual Core Athlon 3800+, 1Gb of RAM, Motherboard ASUS A8N-E

MySQL 5.0.22

params for InnoDB:
–innodb-buffer-pool-size=500M –max-connections=500

params for MyISAM:
–key-buffer-size=500M –max-connections=500 –skip-innodb

Suse 10.0:
kernel-smp-2.6.13-15.x86_64
NTPL

Schedulers comparsion.
By request I made tests with 4BSD scheduler:

InnoDB
threads FreeBSD 6 ULE FreeBSD 6 4BSD 4BSD / ULE
1 483.22 438.1 0.91
4 852.21 819.14 0.96
16 748.89 712.77 0.95
64 644.45 639.2 0.99
256 273.99 330.11 1.20
MyISAM
threads FreeBSD 6 ULE FreeBSD 6 4BSD 4BSD / ULE
1 344.72 324.9 0.94
4 531.6 518.96 0.98
16 494.19 476.57 0.96
64 451.72 444.77 0.98
256 215.84 258.42 1.20

Interesting with 256 threads BSD scheduler looks better.


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