June 18, 2013

Post: Is your MySQL buffer pool warm? Make it sweat!

MySQL high availability. Many rely on MySQL’s asynchronous replication to maintain a warm standby server which is flipped into service if the activehaveYou will need Percona Server in order to use innodb_fake_changes. Thread pool Percona Playback added a connection

Comment: SimCity outages, traffic control and Thread Pool for MySQL

have a supported version of this code, it was agreed that Monty would rewrite this and MySQL Inc would provide a supported MySQLactive connections” when determining a thread pool size. FYI, it was really hard to do a SHOW PROCESSLIST with so many connections

Post: How Does Semisynchronous MySQL Replication Work?

you commit a transaction, the commit does not complete until all replicas have also committed successfully. In MySQLconnectionhave reached any slave. Finally, I would be interested to hear how many people are actually running semi-synchronous replication in production. I have

Post: Percona Server on the Raspberry Pi: Your own MySQL Database Server for Under $80

… for your screen as many connectors that are sold have a wrong pin layout (… NTSC) connector. Once you have your hardware, here is how to get Percona Server for MySQL up and running…active (sshd=ssh daemon, a software package allowing you to connect to a [Linux] server console/command prompt). Connect

Post: Should we give a MySQL Query Cache a second chance ?

…call an Active Cache meaning it takes care of the misses itself, without you have to …you have item invalidated from query cache and there are multiple connection requesting the same item. What MySQL will… Improve Manageability What is in the MySQL Query Cache ? How many hits did we get for this query…

Post: Realtime stats to pay attention to in Percona XtraDB Cluster and Galera

…be connected to. name The name of this local node (first 5 characters).  This is handy when you have…distance — This is a general indicator of how many parallel replication threads you could use.  In practice I haven…to it. There isn’t any replication queue activity, and I find this is common except …

Post: How Percona strives to remain neutral and independent

Many of the prominent companies in the MySQL… about how we’ll work with you, so …You hire Percona to review the architecture. We do not authorize you to mention our name in connection…this is rare. Most vendors have active sales efforts, so … If you have any questions or comments, I invite you to…

Post: How FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK works with Innodb Tables

you have workload which includes some very long SELECT queries youmysql client, so you might get a feel you can’t connect to the database at all (use mysqlyou‘re just using Innodb tables and you‘re not actively changing users, stored procedures etc (which are stored in MyISAM tables anyway) you

Post: How does MySQL Replication really work?

many aspects of MySQL replication, but my main focus will be the logistics – how replication events are written on the master, howyou connectyou got that right – it is reads that are limiting replication performance, not writes. Let me explain this further. Assume you have