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28.03.2014 16:42, Phil Stracchino kirjoitti:
> On 03/28/14 10:16, Jari Fredriksson wrote:
> > Appeared that the bacula script created the tables as MyISAM. I
> > converted to InnoDB, tweaked some MySQL parameters, and not this
> > seems to be OK again.
>
> > Seems there is really a difference between MyISAM and InnoDB.
>
> There is an ENORMOUS difference between MyISAM and InnoDB.  I would go
> so far as to say that MyISAM should never be used in production any
> more, and I wish Oracle would officially deprecate it except for grant
> tables.  (And they're *working on* grant tables in InnoDB.  Maybe in
> MySQL 6.)
>
> Data point:
> At my company I did some simulated-OLTP benchmarking between identical
> servers with identical data sets and test loads, one with MyISAM
> tables and tuned optimally for MyISAM, the other likewise with InnoDB.
>  With a 100% read load, which is the best possible use case for
> MyISAM, the InnoDB server outperformed MyISAM by 60%.  By the time the
> workload reached 25% write, InnoDB was outperforming MyISAM by 400%.
>
> It should always be remembered that once of the principal design goals
> of the MyISAM storage engine was to deliver *acceptable* performance
> on a small server shared with other applications, at a time when a
> "large" server was one that might have a full 32MB of RAM.  That is
> now smaller than the current default size of some individual MySQL
> *buffers*.
>
>

The Bacula database creation script should be updated to use InnoDB, is
not currently so.

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