Since 5.5 is announced as Release Candidate now, I'll not compare it with 5.1 anymore - I think there was written enough about the performance gain even since introduction of 5.4 :-)
From the other side, we want to be sure that the final 5.5 will be at least as good as 5.5.4 release, and here the feedback from real users with real workloads will be very precious! So, please, don't keep quiet! :-))
After that, few notes while testing MySQL 5.5 on dbSTRESS and points for discussions..
Buffer Pool and Purge
Last month I've got some time to focus on the Buffer Pool pages management I've observed many months before with older MySQL/InnoDB versions, and now was curious if I'll reproduce the same issue with MySQL 5.5.4 too...
Few words about the tested workload:
- still dbSTRESS ;-)
- but "light" scenario which may be very common for many web servers: there are only SELECT and …