Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.21-25.1 on March 30, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.21, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.21-25.1 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 [...]
SystemTap – DTrace for Linux ?
September 14, 2009 By 17 Comments
Since DTrace was released for Solaris I am missing it on Linux systems… It can’t be included in Linux by the same reason why ZFS can’t be – it’s licensing issue. Both ZFS and DTrace are under CDDL, which is incompatible with GPL. So you can see DTrace and ZFS on Solaris, FreeBSD, MacOS, but [...]
xtrabackup-0.7 (RC)
May 21, 2009 By 4 Comments
We announce next version of our xtrabackup tool and we consider it stable enough to put label RC on it. Changelist includes: – use O_DIRECT by default for handling InnoDB files – use posix fadvise call to disable OS caching of copying files – disable recovery of double buffer Also we added binary builds for [...]
What is stored InnoDB buffer pool
September 28, 2008 By 8 Comments
Ever wonder what is stored in InnoDB buffer pool at the moment ? It is not so hard actually – we made a short patch for MySQL 5.0 which show innodb buffer pool content
CentOS Comes with free build of MySQL Enterprise ?
January 4, 2008 By 10 Comments
As I already wrote you can well go to Linux distribution vendors if you’re looking for recent MySQL version in a hassle free binary form. (On the time of this writing you could only get binaries for MySQL Community 5.0.45 from MySQL Download Pages which was released in July and so about half a year [...]
