June 19, 2013

Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit

to determine when an in-memory temporary table will be converted to an on-disk table

Post: Shard-Query EC2 images available

… order to keep data entirely in memory. This frees disk to use on-diskto select all text on the page and then CTRL-C to copy it. Paste this into a text file on shard1 called “/tmpTABLES symbolic-links table-definition-cache=16384 table-open-cache=128 thread-cache-size=32 thread-stack=256K tmp-table

Comment: Database problems in MySQL/PHP Applications

memory of 1G-2G where the system runs mainly # MySQL. # # You can copy this file to # /etc/my.cnf toto different dedicated disks #tmpdir = /tmp/ #log-update = /path-to-dedicated-directory/hostname tmpdir =/mysql_tmp/:/tmp/ # Uncomment the following if you are using BDB tables

Post: How to Monitor MySQL with Percona's Nagios Plugins

to delete snapshots after finishing, sometimes due to the backup script failing before completion. Additionally, LVM snapshots that don’t have enough copy-onmemory and cause the server to swap until it is unresponsive and has to