Last week we were busy to align XtraDB performance with 5.4, now we have some results. Currently it is available as “hacks” to XtraDB (available on Lauchpad lp:~percona-dev/percona-xtradb/hacks-porting-tune if you are interested). Basically we took improvements from 5.4 and backported ones performance related to XtraDB. Here are results for tpcc-like workload, 100W (~10GB) ( raw [...]
INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables in the InnoDB pluggable storage engine
May 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Much has been written about the new InnoDB pluggable storage engine, which Innobase released at the MySQL conference last month. We’ve written posts ourselves about its fast index creation capabilities and the compressed row format, and how that affects performance. One of the nice things they added in this InnoDB release is INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables that [...]
Testing InnoDB “Barracuda” format with compression
April 23, 2008 By 3 Comments
New features of InnoDB – compression format and fast index creation sound so promising so I spent some time to research time and sizes on data we have on our production. The schema of one of shards is
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 | CREATE TABLE `article87` ( `id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL, `ext_key` varchar(32) NOT NULL, `site_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, `forum_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, `thread_id` varchar(255) CHARACTER SET latin1 NOT NULL, `published` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00', `crawled` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00', `subject` varchar(255) NOT NULL, `title` varchar(255) NOT NULL, `url` varchar(255) NOT NULL, `num_links` smallint(6) NOT NULL, `links_in` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, `cache_author` varchar(255) NOT NULL, `cache_site` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL, `anchor` varchar(255) NOT NULL, `isthread` tinyint(3) unsigned NOT NULL, `author_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, `inserted` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, `fromfile` varchar(255) NOT NULL, `language_id` tinyint(3) unsigned NOT NULL, `encoding` varchar(255) NOT NULL, `warning` mediumtext NOT NULL, `is_thread_start` tinyint(3) unsigned NOT NULL, `source` mediumint(8) unsigned NOT NULL, `hash` char(32) NOT NULL, `mod_is` tinyint(3) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `is_adult` tinyint(3) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `bodyuc` mediumtext NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`), KEY `ext_key` (`ext_key`), KEY `forum_id` (`forum_id`,`thread_id`,`published`), KEY `site_id` (`site_id`,`published`), KEY `hash` (`hash`), KEY `forum_id_2` (`forum_id`,`is_thread_start`,`published`), KEY `published` (`published`), KEY `inserted` (`inserted`), KEY `forum_id_3` (`forum_id`,`thread_id`,`is_thread_start`), KEY `site_id_2` (`site_id`,`author_id`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1; |
Interested to learn about New Innodb Plugin Performance ?
April 15, 2008 By 2 Comments
As you probably have already heard Innodb Announced new Plugin version for MySQL 5.1 So now you can see Heikki and the Team were not just doing only bug fixes for last two years, but rather kept very quite. We had access to this code for few weeks and should say we were impressed in [...]
MySQL Users Conference – Innodb
May 9, 2007 By 6 Comments
It might look like it is too late to write about stuff happened at Users Conference but I’m just starting find bits of time from processing accumulated backlog. The Theme of this Users Conference was surely Storage Engines both looking at number of third party storage engine presented, main marketing message – Storage Engine partnership [...]
What to tune in MySQL Server after installation
September 29, 2006 By 118 Comments
My favorite question during Interview for people to work as MySQL DBAs or be involved with MySQL Performance in some way is to ask them what should be tuned in MySQL Server straight after installation, assuming it was installed with default settings. I’m surprised how many people fail to provide any reasonable answer to this [...]
SHOW INNODB STATUS walk through
July 17, 2006 By 40 Comments
Many people asked me to publish a walk through SHOW INNODB STATUS output, showing what you can learn from SHOW INNODB STATUS output and how to use this info to improve MySQL Performance. To start with basics SHOW INNODB STATUS is command which prints out a lot of internal Innodb performance counters, statistics, information about [...]
