June 20, 2013

Post: How to calculate a good InnoDB log file size

takes a long time.  That much Peter covered really well.  But howMySQL. In 5.0 and newer, you can just watch Innodb_os_log_written from SHOW GLOBAL STATUS, too.) mysqlflushing and checkpointing process. At this rate, this server could use about 110 MB of logs

Post: DROP TABLE and stalls: Lazy Drop Table in Percona Server and the new fixes in MySQL

how Lazy Drop Table works and how the new DROP Table works in MySQLMySQL‘s version of drop table relies on taking the buffer pool mutex and a mutex on the flush…were captured in the slow log by setting long_query_time to 0. … dropped, MySQL 5.5.23 does show an improvement over MySQL version prior to…

Post: MySQL Backup tools used by Percona Remote DBA for MySQL

… common, but does happen) You…s bin logs –compress option,…long-queries to avoid nasty problems with “FLUSHTakes very little resources to run, can run about anywhere with disk space and writes out binlog files sequentially. Tips/Tricks (howlong term backups Decompressing Percona XtraBackup for MySQL

Post: Heikki Tuuri answers to Innodb questions, Part II

log flushes. A question is why to use a flash memory at all, when a battery-backed disk controller write-back cache does…_pool_size Q36: There have been several MySQL bugs opened about multi-core scalability (concurrent … We can OPTIMIZE the table, but how long will this take? Is there a facility we …

Comment: Benchmarks of new innodb_flush_neighbor_pages

….com/2012/06/mysql-how-to-scale-inserts.html [Quote…smaller and didn’t take that long to remove.” …flush_log_at_trx_commit = 0 (this seems to help a lot with write performance) The flushmysql like varnish for http webserver should speed up mysql since its already technically on the disk. Also btw does

Post: Evaluating IO subsystem performance for MySQL Needs

MySQL needs so I’ve decided to write some simple steps you can take…I hoped this issue is long fixed since that time… …optimize seeks. Lets us see how writes are doing: For …stored in controller cache and flushed to the disk in background -…thread – so it does not only help database log writes but has…

Post: Connecting orphaned .ibd files

long (UNIV_PAGE_SIZE in the source code). Let’s takeFLUSH_LSN 8 “the file has been flushed to disk at least up to this lsn” (logHow let’s connect actor.ibd from sakila database taken from some MySQL… from such error ibdconnect does check if the …lib/mysql/ibdata1 # 5. Now you can start MySQL and take

Post: Percona XtraDB Cluster - installation and setup webinar follow up Q&A

does that mean a 0.25 as from logs… built-in mysql replication are …long as there are at least 3 datacenters, and the total number of the datacenters is odd. Q: How is configuration for the arbitrator? A: You should use the garbd binary for that, is takes… lock using FLUSH TABLES WITH READ…

Post: Innodb Recovery - Is large buffer pool always better ?

How does Buffer Pool size affects Innodb Performance ? I …a bit over 20GB. Innodb recovery was taking long hours with reasonably sized Innodb log files (256M) gradually progressing slower …mysqld buf_flush_insert_sorted_into_flush_list 37849 2.6804 no-vmlinux (no symbols) 8865 0.6278 mysql (no symbols…

Post: Should you move from MyISAM to Innodb ?

… available for all long reporting queries. …, higher concurrency, background flushes while on …taking way too much time to do restore for Innodb. On large scale installations mysqldump does…to consider them. How about Mixing Storage …paths in the MySQL server – in …(or Archive) for logging. Innodb Needs …