Now this is really getting to be ridiculous. Finally was able to obtain a machine with 24 cores (48 with HT) and ran benchmarks. My colleague was able to come fairly close to Dmitri’s 500K numbers. I was getting nowhere with a 12 core (24 with HT) machine, as MySQL 5.5 was routinely faster in simple readonly sysbench benchmarks (both point queries and range selects). If I have to go to management and ask for these types of machines, they would be justified in sending me off to the funny farm.

Now this is really getting to be ridiculous. Finally was able to obtain a machine with 24 cores (48 with HT) and ran benchmarks. My colleague was able to come fairly close to Dmitri’s 500K numbers. I was getting nowhere with a 12 core (24 with HT) machine, as MySQL 5.5 was routinely faster in simple readonly sysbench benchmarks (both point queries and range selects). If I have to go to management and ask for these types of machines, they would be justified in sending me off to the funny farm.