June 20, 2013

Post: Choosing a MySQL HA Solution - Post-Webinar Q&A

How do you monitor MySQL to determine when it’s not responsive? A: The easiest way to do this is to simply connect to it and attempt tomysql/servers.frm’ ERROR: 1033 Incorrect information in file: ‘./mysql/servers.frm’ Running mysql

Post: Modeling MySQL Capacity by Measuring Resource Consumptions

How to get CPU consumption per query ? You can take a look at procfs for MySQL process: root@ubuntu:/var/log/mysqlload growth and need to have system handle another 1000 of such queries per second ? I will need to dobalance of CPU vs IO utilization as well as as simple as how much does it cost to

Post: Is your server's performance about to degrade?

load by half through the load balancer did not restore proper response time, so it wasn’t load… for Daniel figuring out how to make mk-query-…to catch in action as it happens, but we’re thinking about ways to do just that. Catching a server…’s where improvements to the MySQL source code are necessary…

Post: Using MMM to ALTER huge tables

…I’d like to share my experience. The article does not cover MMM installation nor how to do this …masters Once standby servers (only db2 in our case) have caught-up, we are ready to upgrade …. you must change application to use different IP for MySQL or ensure some load balancer/proxy does this, …

Post: Migrating to XtraDB Cluster Webinar follow up questions

…your load balancing/application to write to any single node in the cluster. Q: Are adding/updating mysql user …Galera limitation. Q: In the haproxy example, how do you specify with xtradb cluster the different…on the monitored MySQL server in question.  It should be easy to use this tool to monitor at…

Post: Automation: A case for synchronous replication

servers, application servers etc. We can put these behind some simple load balancerhow Synchronous Replication solutions such a Percona XtraDB Cluster and MySQL Cluster are different. Synchronous replication essentially allows you to

Post: Wishes for new "Pure PHP" MySQL driver

load balancing and fall back I would like to be able to pass list of servers system can connect to and let it handle load balancingto be able to run multiple queries for multiple MySQL connections at once. For scale out applications data to

Post: MySQL Master-Master replication manager released

server, so you can use DNS for load balancing without worrying about TTL and similar things. If Active serverto remove READER role from the server if it gets too delayed with replication (or if replication breaks) so you do not have to do

Post: Should you move from MyISAM to Innodb ?

how to handle it, or be able to learn it. It is also important to adjust processes as required todoing is wisely. It complicates operations tasks (backups, balancing, performance analyzes) as well as it exercises not so common paths in the MySQL server

Post: Content delivery system design mistakes

load balancing, using something like img23.domain.com to serve some of the images. I’m not big fan of purely DNS based load balancingto using some server modules for access control or hacking one if you need some special functionality, few people however have skills to do