…I’m in — obviously a FreeBSD box is different). For example, [percona@…Aborted_clients | 205174 | | Aborted_connects | 29 | | Binlog_cache_disk_use | 0 | | Binlog_cache_use | 9630066 | | Bytes_received | 38563413074 |…checking for default users in the mysql.* tables, running mk-duplicate-key-checker …
Comment: Beware of MyISAM Key Cache mutex contention
… end to a 3 weeks long 24×7 research. MySQL 5.0.81 on FreeBSD 7.0 4 quad core Xeon 16gb I… tracks: FreeBSD bugs, MySQL bugs. One of the nights I got your post: BINGO! I immediately created 10 tailored Key Caches for each… by the fact that they use the same key_cache and the table is used for fulltext search, so no InnoDB possible…
Comment: How Percona diagnoses MySQL server stalls
… a FreeBSD 8 machine to test its new scheduler, but actually did not help (minimal). I really believe the combination FreeBSD scheduler + MySQL… the most used/concurrent tables and assigned dedicated key cache preloading it at startup. (benchmarks I did: http://caligula.mysql.name/core_tests…
Post: Choosing innodb_buffer_pool_size
… Operating System needs you also have MySQL needs – these include MySQL buffers – query cache, key_buffer, mysql threads, temporary tables, per thread sort buffer which… be OS cache. You want to bypass cache for your Innodb tables but there are other things you need OS cache for – MyISAM tables (mysql database… Windows you do not need to do anything. On Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris you need to set innodb_flush_method=O_DIRECT…
Post: JOIN Performance & Charsets
…,000. The data set fit easily in memory. mysql> EXPLAIN EXTENDED SELECT SQL_NO_CACHE COUNT(t1.char_id) > FROM t1 > JOIN t2 USING (char_id)\G *************************** 1. row *************************** id: 1 select_type: SIMPLE table….33 to 3.12 seconds. This test was performed with MySQL 5.0.67, FreeBSD 7, on a box with 2GB RAM.
Comment: Getting annoyed with MyISAM multiple key caches.
… multiple Key Caches help a bit, and helped me in a very bad mysql deadlock issue. I created ten tailored key caches for the ten most high concurrent tables and at 48… the same table by multiple threads at once. Anybody has suspects on the OS as well? I have’em on FreeBSD scheduler…
Comment: How Percona diagnoses MySQL server stalls
…’ combination: MyISAM mutex on the key cache, FreeBSD scheduler, and multiple cores (on different CPUs!) (AMD) MySQL would go (once a week) into… swiches are much higher. Also creating one key cache for each high concurrency table and preloading indexes helped lower the contention. Moving…

