May 22, 2012

Post: Drilling down to the source of the problem

… stuck in the innodb queue, with innodb_thread_concurrency set to 8 Happily enough innodb_thread_concurrency is the variable which can be set online so it is… you. As I mentioned in the start of this post changing innodb_thread_concurrency is happily online operation.

Comment: Drilling down to the source of the problem

… restart with zero innodb_thread_concurrency or did you change it online ? I’ve seen minor glitches sometimes (even in stick release) changing it online, though I thougth these were only related to counting transactions. About patch name – it is part of Innodb IO Patches: innodb

Comment: Drilling down to the source of the problem

Peter, thanks – indeed quite an interesting case and makes feel good knowing we have the patch for it :) Also, I didn’t know innodb_thread_concurrency can be changed online – this is useful to experiment with.

Post: Heikki Tuuri answers to Innodb questions, Part II

InnoDB buffer is 256 page read requests for the aio read threadinnodb_buffer_pool_size Q36: There have been several MySQL bugs opened about multi-core scalability (concurrent queries, autoincrement, concurrent

Post: Aligning IO on a hard disk RAID – the Benchmarks

change was – I have significantly reduced InnoDBinnodb_buffer_pool_size = 128M innodb_log_file_size = 64M innodb_log_files_in_group = 2 innodb_read_io_threads = 8 innodb_write_io_threads = 8 innodbthreads running concurrently

Post: Paul McCullagh answers your questions about PBXT

…of this has been changed to make PBXT more InnoDB-like, but other … more details later. How does online backup work in PBXT, and …have a maintenance thread like InnoDB‘s main thread? PBXT has several system threads, that… criteria are things like backup, concurrency, ACID compliance and crash recovery….

Post: When would you use SAN with MySQL ?

…. Now what is about MySQL/Innodb specifics ? First, in MySQL if … we have partial fix for) meaning concurrent transaction commits will need to be …re running replication Slave as slave thread will issue single IO request …big pain of semi-online MySQL/OS upgrades and Schema changes. Backups SAN …