Comments on: Benchmarking of MySQL Persistent Connections vs Non-Persistent Connections

By: To persist or not to persist? - Maggie Nelson

To persist or not to persist? - Maggie Nelson — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:27:46 +0000

[...] guy x said so” as part of the argument. Here are the results of Robert’s tests: Benchmarking of MySQL Persistent Connections vs Non-Persistent Connections. As Robert says: Basically what the numbers above shows us is that in an isolated environment it [...]

By: Trejkaz

Trejkaz — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:56:56 +0000

What I’m seeing from my own setup is that opening a connection to MySQL (and authenticating) takes 5-6 seconds. So presumably the benefits are going to be enormous in this scenario.

By: Fouad

Fouad — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:19:35 +0000

Great, I really needed the results. I’d always thought that pconnection was slower…

By: Robert Swarthout

Robert Swarthout — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:42:35 +0000

Yes, in these benchmarks I was using only one box. I would like to get a hold of two or even three boxes and test this out sometime.

By: Dominik

Dominik — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:57:19 +0000

Am I right with my assumption, that you keep the Webserver and the MySQL database on the same host? The difference is much higher if you have the database on another server, accessed over the network.