Now that we have our Percona Server Docker images, I wanted to measure the performance overhead when we run the database in the container. Since Docker promises to use a lightweight container, in theory there should be very light overhead. We need to verify that claim, however. In this post I will show the numbers for CPU and network intensive workloads, and later I will take a look at IO.
For the CPU-bound load, I will use a sysbench OLTP read-only workload with data fitting into memory (so there is no IO performed, and the execution path only goes through the network and CPU).
My server is 24 cores (including hyper-threads), with Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2643 v2 @ …
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