Morgan Tocker (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mtocker) wrote,@ 2007-10-28 22:04:00 |
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Initial findings on EC2
Yesterday I reported that I was looking into EC2 to see how it performed as a MySQL Server. Well, I got around to running some benchmarks today. My home machine (AMD64 3000 (I think), Ubuntu 7.10, 7200RPM drive, 1G RAM) can handle almost 730 transactions/second on a basic sysbench test:
sysbench --test=oltp --mysql-table-engine=myisam --oltp-table-size=1000000 --mysql-socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock prepare sysbench --num-threads=16 --max-requests=100000 --test=oltp --oltp-table-size=1000000 --mysql-socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock --oltp-read-only run
What does EC2 (small instance) rate? 132.26 transactions/second.
I've got to say - I'm a little disappointed, since that's more than 5 times worse. I will test the other instance types over the coming days, and try and make my environment a little more controlled.
Databases are often disk i/o bound. Maybe they've considered this and improved it in the other available options?
