I find it very interesting how Sun does not get the very basic principle of true community Open Source development – you’ve got to give up on making a big splash. Traditional close source company often develop product in the secret and when it comes out as a surprise for computers and making a big [...]
Mass killing of MySQL Connections
May 21, 2009 By 23 Comments
Every so often I run into situation when I need to kill a lot of connections on MySQL server – for example hundreds of instances of some bad query is running making server unusable. Many people have special scripts which can take the user, source host or query as a parameter and perform the action. [...]
xtrabackup-0.7 (RC)
May 21, 2009 By 4 Comments
We announce next version of our xtrabackup tool and we consider it stable enough to put label RC on it. Changelist includes: – use O_DIRECT by default for handling InnoDB files – use posix fadvise call to disable OS caching of copying files – disable recovery of double buffer Also we added binary builds for [...]
