June 20, 2013

Post: What technologies are you running alongside MySQL?

… environments MySQL is not the only technology used to store in-process data. Quite frequently, especially with large-scale or complicated … and processing do you use alongside MySQL in your environment? Please feel free to elaborate in the comments about your use case and…

Comment: Can't Create Thread: Errno 11 (A Tale of Two Ulimits)

Hm, yeah, I just tried it on my F18 system (kernel 3.9) and got the same error. Apparently this is a 2.6.x hack only, or maybe there is some other workaround for newer kernel versions that I’m not aware of.

Post: MySQL Webinar: Percona XtraDB Cluster Operations, June 26

…, but we’re starting to reach a threshold where it’s easier to find folks with PXC in production and such the need… some key questions/issues/pain-points for those with PXC in production already.   As such, I’m giving a webinar entitled… Flow Control What and How to Monitor Tuning best practices This webinar is not meant to necessarily be exhaustive, but to cover key topics…

Post: Call for papers: Percona Live London

… Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, you know it was a rare opportunity to learn from some of the most accomplished system architects and developers in the business. Now it’s time to give back. The call for papers (CFP… internals or explain how specific features work in depth. These stories are gold! And you owe it to the MySQL community to share them…

Post: Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) in the real world: Share your use cases!

… the node information – IP address or hostname – should be known in advance (the node itself needn’t be up), which may… to manage this with a small team. That strongly implies scalability of resources – you scale more with less, and that is how it should be. We would like to hear from you about your architectural setup…

Comment: How to calculate a good InnoDB log file size

According to this link, https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-4662 Jesper is correct and I am wrong: when InnoDB warns about not enough space in the logs, it’s overwritten its last checkpoint. Thanks to Jeremy Cole for finding out the truth.

Comment: Sphinx search performance optimization: attribute-based filters

Fabian, – please note that, as stated in the article, this technique only works well for highly selective … 10 groups per 10M records), then you don’t want to use this. Please see “Highly selective columns only” section for…

Comment: Percona Server 5.6.11-60.3 first Release Candidate now available

does/will Percona 5.6 include handlersocket? I assume it’s including the memcache nosql interface in mysql 5.6, correct?

Comment: On Benchmarks on SSD

great write up, heres a video I did on my SSD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZJ-pPeE5lA

Comment: Data mart or data warehouse?

Great article. Did you do a part 3-6? I did not see them in your posts. I would appreciate an email if you did. Thanks.