June 20, 2013

Comment: Testing the Micron P320h

… latest version of XFS (on CentOS 6.4) crashes the box with a kernel panic – so the developers may have replaced…

Comment: Can't Create Thread: Errno 11 (A Tale of Two Ulimits)

… should be picked up next time you SSH into the box and restart MySQL.

Post: 10 years of MySQL User Conferences

… in a MySQL version you could buy MySQL in a box with a CD inside, the same way you’d have…

Comment: MySQL 5.6 - InnoDB Memcached Plugin as a caching layer

…, if it makes sense to have them on the same box). ‘caching’ covers both (although favors traditional mode as it goes…

Post: MySQL 5.6 Compatible Percona Toolkit 2.2 Released

…-change 2.2 is far more resilient out of the box. It’s also aware of metadata locks now, whereas 2…

Post: Should MySQL and Web Server share the same box ?

… MySQL And Web Server and place them on different boxes. Generally using separate boxes for MySQL and Web Servers is rather good… avoid loosing database with any hard drive loss etc. Database boxes also generally require more monitoring and maintainence such as backups… could be small enough to be single shared box (or pair of shared boxes for HA). In such cases I would think…

Post: Box for some tests anyone ?

… with multiple CPUs but we seems to be short of boxes right now, all stuff we have access to is in… good for benchmark. Could anyone lend us access to the box with at least 4 cores running Linux or Solaris ?

Post: Stack trace for x86_64 boxes

… systems. Currently MySQL resolves stack in crash only for x86 boxes. You can download patch for 5.0.22 source tree…

Comment: MySQL wins C'T Database Contest

… contest rules database and appserver were running on the same box. Another box acted as client. When testing the MySQL solution, the… box was not able to saturate the server box. So c’t added another *client* box to the setup. Then the *single* server box

Post: Economics of Performance Optimization

… example right now you can get 8 core x86-64 box with 32G with good price/performance value while if you…. At the same time one would likely get couple of boxes to spread Web and Database instances and establish may be… techniques which allow you to scale out to the several boxes. If you do this step properly you may end up…