Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.0.7 for MySQL on May 6, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories. Percona XtraBackup is the world’s only open-source, free MySQL hot backup software that performs non-blocking backups for InnoDB and XtraDB databases. This release is the current GA (Generally Available) [...]
Profiling MySQL Memory Usage With Valgrind Massif
January 9, 2013 By 1 Comment
There are times where you need to know exactly how much memory the mysqld server (or any other program) is using, where (i.e. for what function) it was allocated, how it got there (a backtrace, please!), and at what point in time the allocation happened. For example; you may have noticed a sharp memory increase [...]
How to obtain the “LES” (Last Executed Statement) from an Optimized Core Dump?
September 9, 2012 By 9 Comments
Ever ran into a situation where you saw “some important variable you really needed to know about=<optimized out>” while debugging?
Some fun with R visualization
February 23, 2012 By 5 Comments
My previous post I finished with the graph with unstable results. There I won’t analyze causes, but rather I want to show some different ways to present results.
Percona Testing: Innodb crash / recovery tests available
December 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Not everyone may know this, but there are precious few innodb crash recovery tests available. Some folks have noticed this and asked for something to be done about it, but unfortunately, no tests have been created for the main MySQL branch. The MySQL at Facebook branch has a number of tests that are quite interesting. [...]
Three ways that the poor man’s profiler can hurt MySQL
December 2, 2011 By 19 Comments
Over the last few years, Domas’s technique of using GDB as a profiler has become a key tool in helping us analyze MySQL when customers are having trouble. We have our own implementation of it in Percona Toolkit (pt-pmp) and we gather GDB backtraces from pt-stalk and pt-collect. Although it’s helped us figure out a [...]
Helgrinding MySQL with InnoDB for Synchronisation Errors, Fun and Profit
November 24, 2011 By 2 Comments
It is no secret that bugs related to multithreading–deadlocks, data races, starvations etc–have a big impact on application’s stability and are at the same time hard to find due to their nondeterministic nature. Any tool that makes finding such bugs easier, preferably before anybody is aware of their existence, is very welcome.
MySQL opening .frm even when table is in table definition cache
November 21, 2011 By 8 Comments
or… “the case of Stewart recognizing parameters to the read() system call in strace output”. Last week, a colleague asked a question: I have an instance of MySQL with 100 tables and the table_definition_cache set to 1000. My understanding of this is that MySQL won’t revert to opening the FRM files to read the table [...]
Getting MySQL Core file on Linux
August 26, 2011 By 1 Comment
Core file can be quite helpful to troubleshoot MySQL Crashes yet it is not always easy to get, especially with recent Linux distributions which have security features to prevent core files to be dumped by setuid processes (and MySQL Server is most commonly ran changing user from “root” to “mysql”). Before you embark on enabling [...]
Introducing our Percona Live speakers
May 10, 2011 By 4 Comments
We have mostly finalized the Percona Live schedule at this point, and I thought I’d take a few minutes to introduce who’s going to be speaking and what they’ll cover. A brief explanation first: we’ve personally recruited the speakers, which is why it has been a slow process to finalize and get abstracts on the [...]
