Re: [Firebird-devel] Interesting article about scalability of MySQL in Amazon (?) RDS

[Vlad K. <hv...@us...>]

> On 06/22/11 11:13, Roman Rokytskyy wrote:
>> Would be interesting to check how does Firebird behaves.
> 
> Roman, we have some implementation of tpc-c, which works with firebird.
> I often use it to check firebird stability under load. But telling true
> it seems that it measures using some other tpmC. I think so because with
> one of the latest tests with trunk I've got
> TPC-C Throughput: 199378.00 tpmC
> on >2 years old box (5 warehouse / 5 client, embedded connection). And
> when the result differs >2 orders of magnitude (compared with 7000 in
> that article), it looks like something different is measured.

    This is because you tested CPU-bound load. Make FW=ON and you'll
see the difference :)

Regards,
Vlad