Dear Community, Today we are announcing XtraDB release 7. This is the last release based on InnoDB plugin version 1.0.3, as you might know Innobase has released 1.0.4. The release includes following new features: MySQL 5.1.37 as a base release speed hack for buf_flush_insert_sorted_into_flush_list controlled by the new variable innodb_fast_recovery Fixed bugs: MySQL Bugs: #45357: [...]
XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.3-6
July 20, 2009 By 6 Comments
Dear community, Today we are pleased to announce release 6 of XtraDB – the result of 2 months hard work. The release includes following new features: MySQL 5.1.36 as a base release New patch
1 | innodb_recovery_patches.patch |
Experimental adaptive checkpoint method estimate innodb_stats – the implementation of the fix forMySQL Bug#30423 expand-import Support of import InnoDB / [...]
xtrabackup-0.8
July 1, 2009 By 8 Comments
Dear community, The release 0.8 of the opensource backup tool for InnoDB and XtraDB is available for download. Key features: New mode of innobackupex –stream=tar4ibd; new command tar4ibd based on libtar-1.2.11 Experimental option –export is added (see Vadim’s post “Impossible – possible, moving InnoDB tables between servers”for details) tar4ibd is made to be sure that [...]
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 [...]
xtrabackup-0.3, binaries and stream backup
March 13, 2009 By 11 Comments
We are coming with next version of xtrabackup – online backup solution for MySQL 5.0 / 5.1 and InnoDB standard version, plugin modification and XtraDB. We still consider it as alpha version, though it shows perfect stable results in our tests. Let me address two often asked question about xtrabackup: 1) Does it work only [...]
The perils of InnoDB with Debian and startup scripts
January 28, 2009 By 13 Comments
Are you running MySQL on Debian or Ubuntu with InnoDB? You might want to disable /etc/mysql/debian-start. When you run /etc/init.d/mysql start it runs this script, which runs mysqlcheck, which can destroy performance. It can happen on a server with MyISAM tables, if there are enough tables, but it is far worse on InnoDB. There are [...]
MySQL Binaries Percona build10
December 11, 2008 By 12 Comments
We made new binaries for MySQL 5.0.67 build 10 which include next fixes: We addressed concerns about potential logging and statistics overhead, so now you can fully turn on / off query statistics for microslow patch and user statistics in runtime. Next variables were added:
1 2 3 4 5 6 | | slow_query_log | ON | | slow_query_log_file | /var/lib/mysql/slow_query.log | for compatibility with MySQL 5.1 and | userstat_running | OFF | to control gathering of user statistics. |
With both slow_query_log = OFF and userstat_running = OFF [...]
New patches, new builds
September 5, 2008 By 24 Comments
We made new patches, improved previous and want to announce new builds for 5.0.62, 5.0.67 and 5.1.26 versions. One of biggest changes we separated releases of 5.0 into two branches. First, just “-percona” release is more stable and contains only stable and proven on many installation patches. Second is “-percona-highperf” release, which contains experimental patches [...]
Percona builds with patches
July 24, 2008 By 16 Comments
As there were many requests for Debian binary packages in our announcement of Percona builds with custom patchsets, we decided to play with it and built .deb, which you can find there: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/mysql/debian/ You can also add the following repositories into your sources.list: deb http://mysqlperformanceblog.com/mysql/debian/5.0/ binary-amd64/ deb http://mysqlperformanceblog.com/mysql/debian/5.0/ source/ deb http://mysqlperformanceblog.com/mysql/debian/5.1/ binary-amd64/ deb http://mysqlperformanceblog.com/mysql/debian/5.1/ source/ [...]
MySQL – to use or not to use
May 28, 2007 By 10 Comments
Reading this slashdot article today and two CIO magazine articles linked from it. Such discussions started at right place at right time always attract a lot of flamers and can be fun to read. What hit me this time is quality of the articles in CIO magazine. If this is what managers suppose to use [...]
