Unnecessary charset conversion causes performance issue?
Posted by: Joe Cai
Date: February 27, 2006 09:24AM

Hi,there,

I came into this problem when trying to upgrade mysql from 4.1.x to 5.0.x.
The cpu usage went up to 99.x% when I was importing large sql files into mysql.
Thus the importing process was very very slow. It looks like that mysql spent a
lot of cpu time doing charset conversion.

I have no idea if it's due to wrong configurations or mysql bug.

My database uses gbk and here's a typical table in it:

CREATE TABLE `products` (
`product_id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`name` varchar(60) default NULL,
`price` float default NULL,
`time` int(11) default NULL,
`overview` text,
`detail` text,
PRIMARY KEY (`product_id`),
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=gbk;

And You can see the character set variables below.

mysql> show variables like '%character%';

+--------------------------+----------------------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+----------------------------------------+
| character_set_client | gbk |
| character_set_connection | gbk |
| character_set_database | gbk |
| character_set_results | gbk |
| character_set_server | gbk |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/local/mysql/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------------------+

And here's my configuration in my.cnf that is related to character sets.

-- snip begin --
[client]
default-character-set = gbk

[mysqld]
character_set_server = gbk
collation_server = gbk_chinese_ci
skip-character-set-client-handshake

[mysql]
no-auto-rehash
default-character-set = gbk

-- snip end --

Could someone give me some idea of what's happening or how to solve this performance
problem? Thanks a lot.

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