Many Percona employees will be at the 2010 MySQL conference. We’ll be giving a lot of informative technical talks on various topics. Here’s a list: Morgan Tocker, Baron Schwartz: Diagnosing and Fixing MySQL Performance Problems Peter Zaitsev: Scaling Applications with Caching, Sharding and Replication Baron Schwartz: EXPLAIN Demystified Vadim Tkachenko: An Overview of Flash Storage [...]
Effect of adaptive_flushing
December 4, 2009 By 5 Comments
I recently had the chance to witness the effects of innodb_adaptive_flushing on the performance of InnoDB Plugin 1.0.5 in the wild, which Yasufumi wrote about previously here and here. The server in question was Solaris 10 with 8 disk RAID10 and 2 32GB SSDs used for ZIL and L2ARC, 72G RAM and 40G buffer pool. [...]
Paul McCullagh answers your questions about PBXT
November 20, 2009 By 2 Comments
Following on from our earlier announcement, Paul McCullagh has responded with the answers to your questions – as well as a few I gathered from other Percona folks, and attendees of OpenSQL Camp. Thank you Paul! What’s the “ideal” use case for the PBXT engine, and how does it compare in performance?  When would I [...]
Tokyo Tyrant – The Extras Part I : Is it Durable?
November 10, 2009 By 5 Comments
You know how in addition to the main movie you have extras on the DVD. Extra commentary, bloopers, extra scenes, etc? Well welcome the Tyrant extras. With my previous blog posts I was trying to set-up a case for looking at NOSQL tools, and not meant to be a decision making tool. Each solution has [...]
Recovery after DROP [ TABLE | DATABASE ]
July 19, 2009 By 4 Comments
In your recovery practice we often face the problem when data lost by execution DROP TABLE or DROP DATABASE statement. In this case even our InnoDB Data Recovery tool can’t help, as table / directory with files was deleted (if you have innodb-file-per-table). And the same for MyISAM, all .MYD / .MYI / .frm – [...]
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 [...]
xtrabackup-0.6
April 29, 2009 By 6 Comments
We announce next beta version of our xtrabackup tool. Changelist includes: – set innodb_fast_shutdown=1 on xtrabackup shutdown – set innodb_write_io_threads=10 by default for fast buffer_pool flushing during recovery – build xtrabackup with –with-extra-charsets=complex Bug #357653: innobackupex-1.5.1 –copy-back fails Bug #358194: 2nd-phase is very slow Bug #358266: xtrabackup-0.5 dies with SEGV on bad command line arguments [...]
Detailed review of Tokutek storage engine
April 28, 2009 By 21 Comments
(Note: Review was done as part of our consulting practice, but is totally independent and fully reflects our opinion) I had a chance to take look TokuDB (the name of the Tokutek storage engine), and run some benchmarks. Tuning of TokuDB is much easier than InnoDB, there only few parameters to change, and actually out-of-box [...]
xtrabackup-0.4, going beta, progress meter
March 30, 2009 By 7 Comments
We added some new features to our backup tool, namely: Now we can handle log file taken during backup with size exceeding 4GB, it may happen if backup takes too long and you have a lot of updates on InnoDB tables Progress meter during recovery step, now you can see what percentage of log file [...]
When would you use SAN with MySQL ?
March 9, 2009 By 18 Comments
One question which comes up very often is when one should use SAN with MySQL, which is especially popular among people got used to Oracle or other Enterprise database systems which are quite commonly deployed on SAN. My question in such case is always what exactly are you trying to get by using SAN ?
