Percona server is EXTREMELY slow

I have just installed Percona server 5.7 and have reused the same my.cnf as I did in mysql

Right now I’m importing a sql file with a mysql dump and it is EXTREMELY slow… At least 5-6 times slower than Mysql

What is wrong? I don’t get it because I just reused the same configuration… If there is no easy way to make percona faster I’m about to go back to mysql right away

Hardware:
Intel i7 2600
16GB RAM

Here is my conf

[mysql]

CLIENT

port = 3306
socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

[mysqld]

GENERAL

user = mysql
default-storage-engine = InnoDB
pid-file = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

SAFETY

max-allowed-packet = 16M
max-connect-errors = 1000000
skip-name-resolve
sql-mode = STRICT_ALL_TABLES,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_AUTO_VALU E_ON_ZERO,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION,ONLY_FULL_GROUP_B Y,NO_ZERO_DATE,NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_ BY_ZERO
sysdate-is-now = 1
symbolic-links = 0

DATA STORAGE

datadir = /var/lib/mysql/

BINARY LOGGING

server-id = 2
log-bin = /var/lib/mysql/mysql-bin
expire-logs-days = 14
sync-binlog = 1
log-bin-trust-function-creators= 1

REPLICATION

log-slave-updates
gtid-mode = ON
enforce-gtid-consistency

CACHES AND LIMITS

tmp-table-size = 32M
max-heap-table-size = 32M
query-cache-type = 0
query-cache-size = 0
max-connections = 500
thread-cache-size = 50
open-files-limit = 65535
table-definition-cache = 4096
table-open-cache = 4096

INNODB

innodb-flush-method = O_DIRECT
innodb-log-files-in-group = 2
innodb-log-file-size = 256M
innodb-flush-log-at-trx-commit = 1
innodb-file-per-table = 1
innodb-buffer-pool-size = 12G

LOGGING

log-error = /var/lib/mysql/mysql-error.log
log-queries-not-using-indexes = 1
slow-query-log = 1
slow-query-log-file = /var/lib/mysql/mysql-slow.log

basedir = /usr
tmpdir = /tmp
lc-messages-dir = /usr/share/mysql
explicit_defaults_for_timestamp

ok…

I realised that the mysql dump was with single inserts so the import is slower…

But… I have just tested mysql 5.7 and percona 5.7 on two identical servers with a new debian install…

Within a timespan mysql 5.7 imported 9000 rows of the dump in a table and percona 5.7 only imported 7200 rows with the configuration above

Hello Clark, have you been able to find answers to your question about same/worse Percona performance in comparison to MySQL?
I’m trying to valuate the Percona, but my initial comparison of performance (using sysbench) between Percona 5.7 and MySQL 5.6
show the same results for both databases. I’ve applied the same my.cnf. The MySQL and Percona are running on separate boxes (same hardware), with the same Centos version. Used the following distro: Percona-Server-5.7.18-14-r2c06f4d-el6-x86_64-bundle.tar