eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by MySqlSortTest

The test monitors the sort operation performed on the MySQL database server.

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Range_sort_rate The rate at which ranges were sorted Sorts/Sec   
Rows_sort_rate The rate at which rows were sorted Sorts/Sec  
Scan_sort_rate The rate at which sorting was performed by scanning the table Sorts/Sec  
Merge_passed_sort_rate The rate at which the sort algorithm performed merge passes Sorts/Sec If this value is large you should consider increasing the sort_buffer.