June 20, 2013

Post: SSD, XFS, LVM, fsync, write cache, barrier and lost transactions

to our Dellto turn off write-cache on SSD – all transactions are in place now, but write speed is only 1200 writesTo have durability we need to disable write cache ( with following performance penalty, how much we need to

Post: Evaluating IO subsystem performance for MySQL Needs

on has 256MB BBU (Battery Backed up Cache) oncached reads because they may show latency to the RAID cache if RAID read cache is enabled. If it is disabledwrites are just stored in controller cache and flushed to the disk

Post: MySQL 5.5.8 and Percona Server: being adaptive

on our Dell PowerEdge R900 box, using RAID10 over 8 disks…innodb_flush_neighbor_pages=0 , to disable flushing of neighborhood pages …And again, that makes a prediction of how many I/O operations thereÂ…write_io_threads=8 innodb_read_io_threads=8 innodb_io_capacity=500 max_connections=3000 query_cache

Post: RAID System performance surprises

…differences based on where data is stored on the disk, …Pretty typical controller from Dell installed on PowerEdge 1950, 2950…to the docs. During this time battery backed up cache will be disabled and system will operate with write through cache possibly slowing down write…have and see how they can be …