Using Sysbench to Benchmark MySQL 5.7

By Lane Vance | May 1, 2018

So, you want to see how many connections your database can take before it gives up? It’s better to know ahead of time when you might expect performance issues than to wait until your service goes down. One of the most common tools around for performance testing is sysbench. I’ve used sysbench with MySQL 5.5…

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Sysbench 1.x Fundamentals

By Lane Vance | March 8, 2018

Sysbench is the hammer frequently used to benchmark servers and services. Within the past year sysbench version 1 was released and with it came some syntax and usage changes. Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of documentation out there for using Sysbench so I had to learn the hard way. The best way to learn more…

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