Gerhard-
>It would also be helpful if anybody could compare the use of InnoDB vs
>my patch.
Showing my ignorance. Is there a posted standard for Drupal performance testing? The last time I did some tests, I just used apache benchmark (copying something I had seen Killes do previously).
Simpletest and the wget method (http://drupal.org/node/11521) don't seem to cover overall performance.
- Ken Rickard