MariaDB Foundation Advances TAF with HammerDB 6.0 and xt_reservoir Integration

Overview

While validating MariaDB RSS stability under stored procedure workloads, I ran into unexpected memory growth. The goal was straightforward: confirm that MariaDB was not leaking memory when running TPROC-C stored procedure workloads. To do this, I used HammerDB TPROC-C SP and added improved RSS monitoring so I could watch memory usage over long-duration runs.

The results were clear. MariaDB RSS stayed stable. HammerDB 5.0 kept growing, and growing.

This led to a deeper investigation into HammerDB itself, and ultimately to an update in TAF to support HammerDB 6.0 and a new RSS logging script.