Able to reproduce with PXC 5.6.19, but once...when it failed and I have started again it didn't give error. root@deb-pxc56-1:~/sysbench/sysbench# mysql -uroot -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 6 Server version: 5.6.19-67.0-56-log Percona XtraDB Cluster (GPL), Release 25.6, wsrep_25.6.r4111 ... Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. mysql> show global variables like 'table_open_cache%'; +----------------------------+-------+ | Variable_name | Value | +----------------------------+-------+ | table_open_cache | 2000 | | table_open_cache_instances | 8 | +----------------------------+-------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> quit Bye root@deb-pxc56-1:~/sysbench/sysbench# ./sysbench --test=/root/sysbench/sysbench/tests/db/insert_autoinc.lua --oltp-table-size=100000 --oltp-tables-count=1 --num-threads=32 --mysql-host=127.0.0.1 --mysql-user=root --mysql-password=root --mysql-port=3306 --report-interval=1 --max-requests=0 --max-time=0 run WARNING: Both max-requests and max-time are 0, running endless test sysbench 0.5: multi-threaded system evaluation benchmark Running the test with following options: Number of threads: 32 Report intermediate results every 1 second(s) Random number generator seed is 0 and will be ignored Threads started! ALERT: failed to execute MySQL query: `INSERT INTO sbtest1 (k, c, pad) VALUES (49870, '69429576205-87925969202-02408199676-02281819182-93380360381-84587501731-92830026416-93404212567-05243222892-12376805095', '12147864779-36258834409-01700703135-41171421152-05431759726')`: ALERT: Error 1062 Duplicate entry '212495' for key 'PRIMARY' FATAL: failed to execute function `event': (null) [ 1s] threads: 32, tps: 0.00, reads/s: 0.00, writes/s: 50.67, response time: 600.80ms (95%) root@deb-pxc56-1:~/sysbench/sysbench# root@deb-pxc56-1:~/sysbench/sysbench# ./sysbench --test=/root/sysbench/sysbench/tests/db/insert_autoinc.lua --oltp-table-size=100000 --oltp-tables-count=1 --num-threads=32 --mysql-host=127.0.0.1 --mysql-user=root --mysql-password=root --mysql-port=3306 --report-interval=1 --max-requests=0 --max-time=0 run WARNING: Both max-requests and max-time are 0, running endless test sysbench 0.5: multi-threaded system evaluation benchmark Running the test with following options: Number of threads: 32 Report intermediate results every 1 second(s) Random number generator seed is 0 and will be ignored Threads started! [ 1s] threads: 32, tps: 0.00, reads/s: 0.00, writes/s: 0.00, response time: 0.00ms (95%) [ 2s] threads: 32, tps: 0.00, reads/s: 0.00, writes/s: 34.00, response time: 1686.45ms (95%) [ 3s] threads: 32, tps: 0.00, reads/s: 0.00, writes/s: 18.00, response time: 831.84ms (95%) [ 4s] threads: 32, tps: 0.00, reads/s: 0.00, writes/s: 32.00, response time: 1796.94ms (95%) [ 5s] threads: 32, tps: 0.00, reads/s: 0.00, writes/s: 30.00, response time: 1146.91ms (95%) [ 6s] threads: 32, tps: 0.00, reads/s: 0.00, writes/s: 2.00, response time: 1131.23ms (95%) [ 7s] threads: 32, tps: 0.00, reads/s: 0.00, writes/s: 32.03, response time: 1821.85ms (95%) [ 8s] threads: 32, tps: 0.00, reads/s: 0.00, writes/s: 14.00, response time: 1491.67ms (95%) [ 9s] threads: 32, tps: 0.00, reads/s: 0.00, writes/s: 18.00, response time: 1489.44ms (95%) [ 10s] threads: 32, tps: 0.00, reads/s: 0.00, writes/s: 24.00, response time: 1844.90ms (95%) [ 11s] threads: 32, tps: 0.00, reads/s: 0.00, writes/s: 9.00, response time: 1810.43ms (95%) [ 12s] threads: 32, tps: 0.00, reads/s: 0.00, writes/s: 31.00, response time: 1494.35ms (95%) [ 13s] threads: 32, tps: 0.00, reads/s: 0.00, writes/s: 9.00, response time: 1897.55ms (95%) [ 14s] threads: 32, tps: 0.00, reads/s: 0.00, writes/s: 23.00, response time: 1825.67ms (95%) [ 15s] threads: 32, tps: 0.00, reads/s: 0.00, writes/s: 32.00, response time: 1479.22ms (95%) [ 16s] threads: 32, tps: 0.00, reads/s: 0.00, writes/s: 1.00, response time: 1744.47ms (95%) [ 17s] threads: 32, tps: 0.00, reads/s: 0.00, writes/s: 31.00, response time: 1809.89ms (95%)