MySql Scaling

Presenters:
Chris Schneider
And Kevin Knapp
Intro

 Consolidation methodologies
 Local vs Shared
 Local storage, NFS, iSCSI, Fiber
 File systems
 EXT3, XFS, VXFS and ZFS
 Sun hardware
 Innodb Performance
 Sharding
Local vs. SAN
 Considerations
 Partitioning
 Type of disk and setup
 Backups
 LVM, mysqldump, parallel, rdiff, innodb hot
backup
 The key is to Benchmark
 Sysbench
 Supersmack

 Home grown
Test on different file systems
 EXT3
 Traditional and widely used
 XFS
 Has been great to work with in my
experience
 Show best performance in in my
benchmarks
 ZFS
 Snapshots with no penalties
The Tortus and the Hare

 Waterfalls
 Seven Falls
 Niagra

 The case study:

 Shared hosting environment
 Hundreds of thousands of users
 Users with almost full autonomy

 MySql 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0

Comparison Breakdown

Dell 2950 Sun T2000 Sun T5220 Sun T5240 SB6000/6300 SB6000/6320
RU 2 RU 2 RU 2 RU 2 RU 10 RU 10 RU

CPU Xeon 5148 T1 T2 T2 Plus T1 T2

Speed 2.33 GHz 1.20 GHz 1.20 GHz 1.20 GHz 1.20 GHz 1.20 GHz
Cache 4 MB 3 MB 4 MB 4 MB 3 MB 4 MB
CPU Count 2 1 1 2 10 10
# Cores/CPU 2 8 8 8 8 8
Total Cores/Server 4 8 8 16 8 8
HW Threads per Core 1 4 8 8 40 80
HW Threads/Server 4 32 64 128 320 640
MySql Instances Focus

Dell 2950 Sun T2000 Sun T5220 Sun T5240 SB6000/6300 SB6000/6320

CPU Xeon 5148 T1 T2 T2 Plus T1 T2

HW Threads/Server 4 32 64 128 320 640

Instances of mySQL 4 8 16 32 80 160

Total Instances 752 Instances 752 Instances 752 Instances 752 Instances 752 Instances 752 Instances
Total Systems 188 Systems 94 Systems 47 Systems 24 Systems 9 Systems 5 Systems
Total Rack Units 376 RU 188 RU 94 RU 48 RU 90 RU 50 RU
Total Racks 10 Rack 5 Rack 3 Rack 2 Rack 3 Rack 2 Rack
Systems Focus

Dell 2950 Sun T2000 Sun T5220 Sun T5240 SB6000/6300 SB6000/6320

CPU Xeon 5148 T1 T2 T2 Plus T1 T2

HW Threads/Server 4 32 64 128 320 640

Instances of mySQL 4 8 16 32 80 160

Total Instances 752 Instances 752 Instances 752 Instances 752 Instances 752 Instances 752 Instances
Total Systems 188 Systems 94 Systems 47 Systems 24 Systems 9 Systems 5 Systems
Total Rack Units 376 RU 188 RU 94 RU 48 RU 90 RU 50 RU
Total Racks 10 Rack 5 Rack 3 Rack 2 Rack 3 Rack 2 Rack
Number of Systems

Number of Systems Required

200

150

100

50

0
Dell 2950 Sun T2000 Sun T5220 Sun T5240 SB6000/6300 SB6000/6320
Datacenter Space

Total Rack Units Required

400

300

200

100

0
Dell 2950 Sun T2000 Sun T5220 Sun T5240 SB6000/6300 SB6000/6320
Performance
 Memory Allocations
 Optimized SQL
 Normalize till it hurts denormalize till it works
 Innodb vs MyISAM
 Transactions and concurrent inserts
 Timing and location of script and backup
execution
 Recoverability
 Point in time
Q&A

 Questions