I prefer to run MySQL with innodb_flush_method=O_DIRECT in most cases – it makes sure there is no overhead of double buffering and I can save the limited amount of file system cache I would normally have on database server for those things which need to be cached — system files, binary log, FRM files, MySQL [...]
MySQL Wish for 2013 – Better Memory Accounting
December 31, 2012 By 6 Comments
With Performance Schema improvements in MySQL 5.6 I think we’re in the good shape with insight on what is causing performance bottlenecks as well as where CPU resources are spent. (Performance Schema does not accounts CPU usage directly but it is something which can be relatively easily derived from wait and stage information). Where we’re [...]
Announcing Percona Server 5.5.28-29.2
December 7, 2012 By 2 Comments
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.28-29.2 on December 7th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.28, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.28-29.2 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]
Get Me Some Query Logs!
November 22, 2012 By 14 Comments
One of my favorite tools in the Percona Toolkit is pt-query-digest. This tool is indispensable for identifying your top SQL queries, and analyzing which queries are accounting for your database load. But the report you get from pt-query-digest is only as good as the log of queries you give it as input. You need a large [...]
How Much memory do you use to run MySQL
November 2, 2012 By 8 Comments
We have seen number of issues with MySQL Server related to amount of memory you have in the system – these range from problems with large size Query Cache to bad drop table performance with large Innodb Buffer Pool size. As such I wonder how much memory do we really use to run MySQL Server [...]
Announcing Percona Server 5.5.28-29.1
October 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.28-29.1 on October 26th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.28, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.28-29.1 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]
Announcing Percona Server 5.5.27-29.0
October 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.27-29.0 on October 11th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.27, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.27-29.0 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]
MySQL 5.6.7-RC in tpcc-mysql benchmark
October 8, 2012 By 21 Comments
MySQL 5.6.7 RC is there, so I decided to test how it performs in tpcc-mysql workload from both performance and stability standpoints. I can’t say that my experience was totally flawless, I bumped into two bugs: MySQL 5.6.7 locks itself on CREATE INDEX MySQL 5.6.7-rc crashed under tpcc-mysql workload But at the end, is not [...]
A (prototype) lower impact slow query log
September 20, 2012 By 12 Comments
Yesterday, over at my personal blog, I blogged about the impact of the MySQL slow query log. Since we’re working on Percona Server 5.6, I did wonder if this was a good opportunity to re-examine how we could provide slow query log type functionality to our users. The slow query log code inside the MySQL [...]
How to obtain the “LES” (Last Executed Statement) from an Optimized Core Dump?
September 9, 2012 By 9 Comments
Ever ran into a situation where you saw “some important variable you really needed to know about=<optimized out>” while debugging?
