Hi there!
I have noticed very poor MySQL (InnoDB) performance on my droplet.
I am running MySQL (Percona Server) 5.6 with fine tuned config.
Database directory placed on BlockStorage.
I used fio utility to test BlockStorage disk performance and everything is ok, if I running fio as described here https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-benchmark-digitalocean-volumes . Burst performance approximately near 7500 iops, after 1 minute test it slow down to approx. 5000 iops.
As InnoDB using fsync for each commit operation to compliant data consistency I tested fio performance with fsync for each IO operation (—fsync=1). In test with fsync=1 I noticed only 50-100 iops!
Can anybody answer me why performance so poor in my case?
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I’ve found similar.
After some investigation (and reading up) I think the problem is that DO’s hypervisors do not use battery backed RAID controllers [would be nice if they verified this]. This means an fsync has to pysically flush to disk which is slow even on SSDs.
I see an average of about 20ms which matches your 50/sec. However, I am measuring from within the app which requires a localhost network round trip too… and I’m actually committing real data.
In a previous incarnation I used to manage database RAID arrays and one problem is that once the battery goes (which shows up as a tiny light on the controller and happens every year or two) the performance drops away.
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