Performance tuning WiredTiger applications

This section covers topics of interest for programmers wishing to investigate performance and tune their WiredTiger applications.

Performance tuning

• Memory allocator
• Page and overflow key/value sizes
• Cache and eviction tuning
• Bulk-load
• Cursor persistence
• Read-only objects
• Commit-level durability
• Checksums
• Compression
• File allocation
• System buffer cache
• Linux transparent huge pages
• Connection close
• Mutexes
• Linux zone reclamation memory management
• Performance monitoring with statistics

Simulating workloads

• Simulating workloads with wtperf