June 20, 2013

Post: MySQL 5.6 vs MySQL 5.5 and the Star Schema Benchmark

Server: Intel core i970-3.20GHz.  12 logical cores (six physical cores). 12GB memory 4 disk 7200RPM RAID 10 array… MySQL 5.6.10 was doing more IO as a consequence.  …. Innodb_old_blocks_time controls how long a page must be … buffer pool is smaller than the working set) having innodb_old_blocks_…

Post: Distributed Set Processing with Shard-Query

…quick preview, then explain exactly how Shard-Query works.Yes, Shard-Query scales …the proxy. The databases do 99.9% of the work, due to the …list of servers and some credentials are required to make this work. It can… flight_delayed`) — SQL TO SEND TO SHARDS Array ( [0] => SELECT origin_airport_id AS…

Comment: Slow Query Log analyzes tools

work acceptably well in our case. It rebuilds the timing, connections, and queries the server… by connection id and datetime, # – is an array of all queries by that connection at…do this. #waitpid($pid,0); } } } # done!!! I got some quite interesting numbers our of it, and have learned a lot about how

Post: RAID and Scale Out Discussions

… the company skilled enough to work with distributed systems. I think … often ask how large system is needs to growth and how much …use crappy boxes as redundant array of inexpensive servers, basically moving redundancy one … with their new Opteron servers. They also do not provide high volume internal…