It has taken a years to get a proper integration between operating system kernel, device driver and hardware to get behavior with caches and IO modes correctly. I remember us having a lot of troubles with fsync() not flushing hard drive write cache and so potential hard drives can be lost on power failure. Happily [...]
Modeling MySQL Capacity by Measuring Resource Consumptions
March 8, 2011 By 1 Comment
There are many angles you can look at the system to predict in performance, the model baron has published for example is good for measuring scalability of the system as concurrency growths. In many cases however we’re facing a need to answer a question how much load a given system can handle when load is [...]
Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS
February 21, 2011 By 55 Comments
Is it a good idea to deploy your database into the cloud? It depends. I have seen it work well many times, and cause trouble at other times. In this blog post I want to examine cloud-based I/O. I/O matters a lot when a) the database’s working set is bigger than the server’s memory, or [...]
Security fixes for MySQL 4.0 and 4.1
June 2, 2010 By 1 Comment
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: [...]
Percona Server security fix releases
May 23, 2010 By 4 Comments
As you may know MySQL ® announced 5.0.91 and 5.1.47 with serious security fixes, so we provide binary releases of Percona Server 5.0 and Percona Server / XtraDB 5.1 with security patches. Fixed bugs: Bug#53371, CVE-2010-1848 Bug#53237, CVE-2010-1850 Bug#50974, CVE-2010-1849 Release Percona Server 5.0.91-rel22 is available in our download area: http://www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-5.0/Percona-Server-5.0.91-22/ Release Percona Server/XtraDB 5.1.45-rel10.2 [...]
RAID throughput on FusionIO
March 24, 2010 By 7 Comments
Along with maximal possible fsync/sec it is interesting how different software RAID modes affects throughput on FusionIO cards. In short conclusion, RAID10 modes really disappoint me, the detailed numbers to follow. To get numbers I run
1 | sysbench fileio |
test with 16KB page size, random read and writes, 1 and 16 threads, O_DIRECT mode. FusionIO cards are [...]
FusionIO – time for benchmarks
December 8, 2009 By 10 Comments
I posted about FusionIO couple times RAID vs SSD vs FusionIO and Testing FusionIO: strict_sync is too strict…. The problem was that FusionIO did not provide durability or results were too bad in strict mode, so I lost interest FusionIO for couple month. But I should express respect to FusionIO team, they did not ignore [...]
Air traffic queries in InfiniDB: early alpha
November 2, 2009 By 19 Comments
As Calpont announced availability of InfiniDB I surely couldn’t miss a chance to compare it with previously tested databases in the same environment. See my previous posts on this topic: Analyzing air traffic performance with InfoBright and MonetDB Air traffic queries in LucidDB I could not run all queries against InfiniDB and I met some [...]
7 Reasons why MySQL Quality will never be the same
December 10, 2008 By 15 Comments
I had a call with Monty the other day and I told him why I think MySQL Server Quality will never be the same again. I’ve been thinking a bit more about it and here is the extended list. In particular I think MySQL Server will never be able to reach its original quality guidelines [...]
Recovering Innodb table Corruption
July 4, 2008 By 21 Comments
Assume you’re running MySQL with Innodb tables and you’ve got crappy hardware, driver bug, kernel bug, unlucky power failure or some rare MySQL bug and some pages in Innodb tablespace got corrupted. In such cases Innodb will typically print something like this: InnoDB: Database page corruption on disk or a failed InnoDB: file read of [...]
