This run is very similar what I had on Intel SSD X25-M card, but now I use FusionIO 80GB SLC card. I chose this card as smallest available card (and therefore cheapest. On Dell.com you can see it for about $3K). There is also FusionIO IO-Xtreme 80GB card, which is however MLC based and it [...]
PBXT in tpcc-like benchmark
Finally I was able to run PBXT 1.0.11 pre-GA in tpcc-like workload, apparently there was bug with did not allow me to get the result earlier, and I am happy to see that PBXT team managed it. For initial runs I took tpcc 100 warehouses ( about 10GB of data) which fully fits into memory [...]
Security fixes for MySQL 4.0 and 4.1
In Percona Server security fix releases I mentioned patches for MySQL 4.0 and 4.1. I am happy to announce that GoDaddy.com released patches for MySQL 4.0 and MySQL 4.1 under GPL license and you can get them from our Launchpad: for 4.0: lp:~percona-dev/percona-patches/4.0.30 ( or https://launchpad.net/~percona-dev/percona-patches/4.0.30 ) for 4.1: lp:~percona-dev/percona-patches/4.1.24 ( or https://launchpad.net/~percona-dev/percona-patches/4.1.24) Fixed bugs: [...]
Color code your performance numbers
When analyzing how good or bad response time is it is not handy to look at the averages, min or max times – something what is easily computed using built in aggregate functions. We most likely would like to see some percentile numbers – 95 percentile or 99 percentile. The problem is computing these in [...]

