Hi, in the light of http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.fi/2012/12/non-persistent-connection-perf... I did a similar benchmark. I used sysbench-0.4.12 for this with this command line $SYSBENCH --test=oltp --oltp-table-size=1000 --oltp-dist-type=uniform --num-threads=$thread --oltp-read-only=on --oltp-test-mode=simple --oltp-skip-trx --oltp-reconnect-mode=query --oltp-connect-delay=0 --db-ps-mode=disable --mysql-table-engine=InnoDB --mysql-engine-trx=no --mysql-socket=$SOCKET --max-time=60 --max-requests=0 --mysql-user=sysbench --mysql-password=sysbench --percentile=95 run This generates a workload of connect select .. where pk=const disconnect I varied the following: - number of concurrent threads - malloc library: glibc vs. tcmalloc - privileges given to sysbench@localhost * none (--skip-grant-tables) * global = ALL on *.* * db = ALL on sbtest.* * table = ALL on sbtest.sbtest I used the new 64 core machine for this. Everything was compiled locally with the REL_WITH_DEBINFO options. There is a rather huge dependence on the memory allocator. The results don't match Yoshis otherwise. See yourself. XL