>>>>> "Dave" == Dave <dave@stripped> writes:
Dave> Anyone have any idea of speed differences between using a localhost
Dave> connection and a socket for MySQL? I am contemplating setting up a dedicated
Dave> MySQL machine for all our DB activity but if the other 4 machines are going
Dave> to suffer by having to query across sockets I don't want that...
Dave> Any comments are greatly appreciated. (even ones pointing me to a page in
Dave> the MySQL manual)
From the MySQL manual:
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If you connect using TCP/IP rather than Unix sockets, the result is 7.5%
slower.
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On the other hand, you can easily test this yourself.
Just run the MySQL benchmarks as follows:
perl run-all-tests --host='your-host-name' --suffix=tcp_ip --small-tables
perl run-all-tests --host='localhost' --small-tables
perl compare-results output/RUN*
Regards,
Monty
