I have a brand new laptop (Asus N551VW, i7-6700HQ, 16 Gb ram) on which i installed Ubuntu 14.04 64bit and a new Samsung SSD 850 PRO 512Gb (latest firmware). I installed the default MySql 5.6.27 on the machine but I noticed a very VERY slow performance of the database (just creating a db and executing some migrations without any data takes around 33 seconds while on lower-hardware co-workers notebooks it takes like 3 seconds). Every sql statement seems to spend most time in "system lock" state, as i could see with a SHOW PROCESSLIST.
I thought it to be an hard drive issue, but executing the hard drive benchmark in Ubuntu gives 500 Mb/s read and 350 Mb/s write speed, which looks mostly normal.
I also tried updating to the new 4.2 kernel, but the issue still there. To make an experiment, i cloned the ssd on a normal hard drive, switched it in and connected the SSD externally with an usb box. I moved mysql data directory to the external disk, and retried the db creation: it took only 2.5 seconds!
Just out of curiosity i tried the same operation on an internal non-ssd disk: when the hd is plugged inside the laptop with sata, the database creation takes more than 2 minutes, while with the data dir on external usb (with the same physical disk) it took less than 10 seconds!
I'm really clueless on this. The tests were done all in the same conditions (machine at 0 load, ext4 filesystem etc). Seems like there's some problem on the I/O chain (SATA controller?) but i have no idea on how to test this.
This is the lshw info about disk and controller:
*-storage
description: SATA controller
product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 17
bus info: pci@0000:00:17.0
version: 31
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: storage msi pm ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ahci latency=0
resources: irq:127 memory:df330000-df331fff memory:df334000-df3340ff ioport:f090(size=8) ioport:f080(size=4) ioport:f060(size=32) memory:df333000-df3337ff
*-scsi:0
physical id: 1
logical name: scsi0
capabilities: emulated
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: Samsung SSD 850
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 2B6Q
serial: S250NXAGB34907Y
size: 476GiB (512GB)
capabilities: gpt-1.00 partitioned partitioned:gpt
configuration: ansiversion=5 guid=02c7beb5-f100-4252-8534-a8f6f692692d sectorsize=512
*-volume:4
description: EXT4 volume
vendor: Linux
physical id: 5
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,5
logical name: /dev/sda5
logical name: /
logical name: /var/lib/docker/aufs
version: 1.0
serial: 5231fd09-180d-4fd2-bad5-e989207b11e7
size: 88GiB
capabilities: journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover extents ext4 ext2 initialized
configuration: created=2016-01-06 12:55:27 filesystem=ext4 lastmountpoint=/ modified=2016-01-24 23:37:05 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered mounted=2016-01-24 23:37:05 state=mounted
lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1910 (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1901 (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 191b (rev 06)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 1903 (rev 07)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device a12f (rev 31)
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device a131 (rev 31)
00:15.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device a160 (rev 31)
00:15.1 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device a161 (rev 31)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device a13a (rev 31)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device a103 (rev 31)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device a112 (rev f1)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device a113 (rev f1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device a14e (rev 31)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Device a121 (rev 31)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device a170 (rev 31)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device a123 (rev 31)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 139b (rev a2)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7265 (rev 59)
03:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 5287 (rev 01)
03:00.1 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
I also tried different schedulers (deadline, noop) with no results :(
I'd be very grateful if someone could help!
Thanks in advance!