June 19, 2013

Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit

how to read these, there’s a full explanation in our book, High Performance MySQLof the analysis we do. A lot of times, customers will tell us up front to limit the work to some number of

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

connections opened to the slaves, which would allow to read old data as application is designed toto strip comments when checkingof applications. Many applications in MySQL have very large number ofscript which can have application-specific tunings to prioritize which queries are more important to

Post: Percona XtraDB Cluster: Failure Scenarios with only 2 nodes

to use the mysql server: [root@percona1 ~]# mysql Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connectionhow can we deal with that and avoid the resource to stop ? If we check the list ofnumber of nodes: 1, my index: 0, protocol version 2 Now when we put the two settings to

Post: Using LVM for MySQL Backup and Replication Setup

MySQL backups are great ? There are number of reasons: Almost Hot backup In most cases you can perform this type ofto synchronize binary log position with backup you can skip this step. 2) While holding connection openscript

Post: SHOW INNODB STATUS walk through

number of locked rows – there are normally many rows for each lock structure. For each of connections for MySQLhow many inserts were done in insert buffer, how many recs were merged and how many merges did it took. Ratio of number of merges to number of

Post: Living with backups

… a utility called ionice. It allows to affect how I/O scheduler will be dealing with … file that was opened with O_DIRECT flag, the file needs to be aligned to the file …script does is to check MySQL status every second and in case the number of connected threads goes above 50, it sends STOP signal to

Post: Updated msl (microslow) patch, installation walk-through!

to check the platform specific part of the reference manual for hints about installing MySQLof them thus limiting the number of writes to the log. Note: this feature will fail to work well if your application uses some kind of connection

Post: Content delivery system design mistakes

to handle both network and IO which is not going to scale especially if you have storage build from large number ofto do this kind of job. The other solution is to use X-send-file or similar custom headers which make PHP script just to check