For the my previous post, there was comment to suggest to test db_STRESS benchmark on XtraDB by Dimitri. And I tested and tuned for the benchmark. I will show you the tunings. It should be also tuning procedure for general heavy writing workloads. At first, <tuning peak performance>. The next, <tuning purge operation> to stabilize [...]
Percona welcomes Devananda van der Veen
October 14, 2009 By 1 Comment
On the heels of our earlier announcement of Fernando and Yves, I’m happy to welcome Devananda van der Veen to our team. Devananda, also known as Deva, is a talented, detail-oriented MySQL expert and systems administrator. His previous job was at Hydra, an advertising network, where he was sole DBA and half of the systems [...]
Watch out for your CRON jobs
October 14, 2009 By 19 Comments
Resolving extreme database overload for the customer recently I have found about 80 copies of same cron job running hammering the database. This number is rather extreme typically the affect is noticed and fixed well before that but the problem with run away cron jobs is way to frequent. If slow down happens on the [...]
