Microslow patch has been there for some time, but only for earlier MySQL editions such as 4.1 and 5.0. Now it’s also available for the latest 5.1. Because MySQL went through a lot of internal changes, the patch had to be written from scratch. It introduces some minor change in existing functionality and also adds [...]
How Innodb flushes data to the disk ?
July 18, 2007 By 3 Comments
In my previous post I was a bit wrong giving Innodb some properties it does not have. In fact Innodb does not currently sort pages in their position order flushing them to disk. Pages to be flushed are instead identified by other means – LRU and pages which contain oldest LSN (so which were flushed [...]
