Details: The benchmark was taken using MySQL 5.1.41 using innodb_plugin running on linux 2.6.31/x86_64 (Ubuntu 9.10 server). Options passed to sysbench were: --test=oltp --db-driver=mysql --mysql-table-engine=innodb --oltp-table-size=1000000 --mysql-user=root --mysql-db=test --oltp-table-name=test_t --num-threads=20 . My.cnf was set as follows. max_allowed_packet=16777216 query_cache_size=0 defa