Yes we are still plugging away working on Waffle Grid, in fact I
am testing the heck out of the plugin release this week. Some
good news, great news, and bad news to report.
The good news on the testing is using the new Waffle Grid
release, I am able to consistently get up close to 15K TPM,
that’s up from 3K TPM without WaffleGrid ( 5x increase woohoo! ).
This performance boost holds true through several tests, and
based on this testing I am working on a set of recommended
parameters for getting the most performance out of Waffle. I
should have my recommendations for our User Conference
presentation.
The great news is I have been able to get close to 20K TPM by
disabling the read-ahead! This represents a huge boost in
performance, over both the read-ahead enabled and the non-waffle
tests. The bad news is in extended tests with the read-ahead
disabled the plugin version takes a crap on me and consistently
dies about 22-24 minutes …
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