Hello Mark, appreciate the reply. The OLTP table size and OLTP size give me a DB size of appx 12GB. This is what I want. I have in the meantime, looked at some older logs and see that whatever amount of threads I specify (8, 16,32, 64 or 128), the deadlock messages are still surfacing in the R/W phase of Sysbench. I even dropped in two different MariaDB release levels (10.0.19, 10.1.24) to see whether it would make a difference, deadlock still there. I am using Sysbench 0.5 for these tests. I am currently using MariaDB 10.1.24 - built directly on the machine. S390x by the way, but the problem is also occuring on an X86-64 box. Regards, JC I run sysbench frequently with MySQL (not MariaDB yet) and don't recall ever seeing this error. But I use much larger values for --oltp-table-size. You used 85937 and I use 1M or larger. Maybe there is too much data contention with smaller tables, even if a large number of tables is used (128 in your case). I use a smaller number of tables - between 4 and 20. On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 12:48 AM, J. Cassidy sean@jdcassidy.eu> wrote: Hello all, have used Sysbench extensively to test MariaDB CPU load factors between various architectures. I am noticing massive amounts of "[ERROR] mysqld: Deadlock found when trying to get lock; try restarting transaction" in the MariaDB error log during the R/W phase. The Sysbench R/W TPS rates are still respectable for my purposes, but how do I correct this condition?? Can I ignore this / must live with it? I have tried three different MariaDB releases (10.0.19, 10.1.12, 10.1.24) to narrow things down, but this message (x 1000's) is happening across all releases in the Sysbench R/W phase. Here is the Sysbench command that drives the workload against MariaDB - sysbench --test=lua/oltp.lua --oltp_tables_count=128 --oltp-table-size=85937 --rand-seed=42 --rand-type=uniform --num-threads=128 --oltp-read-only=off --report-interval=2 --mysql-socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --max-time=201 --max-requests=0 --mysql-user=root --percentile=99 run Would anyone have a tip / idea /pointer? Regards, JC John Cassidy Obere Bühlstrasse 21 8700 Küsnacht (ZH) Switzerland / Suisse / Schweiz Mobile: +49 152 58961601 (Germany) Mobile: +352 621 577 149 (Luxembourg) Mobile: +41 78 769 17 97 (CH) Landline: +41 44 509 1957 http://www.jdcassidy.eu "Aut viam inveniam aut faciam" - Hannibal. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss Post to : maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp --Mark Callaghan mdcallag@gmail.com John Cassidy Obere Bühlstrasse 21 8700 Küsnacht (ZH) Switzerland / Suisse / Schweiz Mobile: +49 152 58961601 (Germany) Mobile: +352 621 577 149 (Luxembourg) Mobile: +41 78 769 17 97 (CH) Landline: +41 44 509 1957 http://www.jdcassidy.eu "Aut viam inveniam aut faciam" - Hannibal.