May 24, 2012

Post: How FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK works with Innodb Tables

…select to complete. What is worse as the statement started execution all writes will be blocked to the server… either kill FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK and fail backup or kill long running SELECT queries to …one way or another. If you’re just using Innodb tables and you’re not actively changing users, …

Post: Add an option to Fail on Innodb Initialize failure, Please ?

… now MySQL does not stop if Innodb storage engine failed to initialize but starts properly… just having Innodb tables unavailable. I honestly do not… get out quickly and fix things. But it gets worse. Innodb failed initialization is not only very hidden – you will not see…’ How this supposed to tell you Innodb (or for that sake any other Storage Engine) failed to initialize ? This error suppose to…

Post: Recovering Innodb table Corruption

… only in the data portion of pages so once you started Innodb with innodb_force_recovery=1 you can do the following: mysql… with innodb_force_recovery=1 080704 0:22:53 InnoDB: Assertion failure in thread 1158060352 in file btr/btr0btr.c line 3235 InnoDB: Failing assertion: page_get_n_recs(page) > 0 || (level == 0 && page_get_page_no(page) == dict_index_get_page(index)) InnoDB

Post: SHOW INNODB STATUS walk through

…of time. In the very start of printout Innodb will print: ===================================== 060717 3:07:56 INNODB MONITOR OUTPUT ===================================== Per second …insert into child values(2,2) Foreign key constraint fails for table `test/child`: , CONSTRAINT `child_ibfk_1` …

Comment: Returning to InnoDB scalability

….c line 189 InnoDB: Failing assertion: (buf_pool->flush_list).count > 0 InnoDB: We intentionally generate a memory trap. InnoDB: Submit a…29:29 InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally! InnoDB: Starting crash recovery. InnoDB: Reading tablespace information from the .ibd files… InnoDB: Restoring…

Post: InnoDB memory allocation, ulimit, and OpenSUSE

… assert due to a failed malloc() in ut_malloc_low() in ut/ut0mem.c inside InnoDB source code. InnoDB wraps the majority of… successfully. What was failing is the allocation of 3.37GB after that. What in the world could InnoDB need that was 3… ulimited; ulimit -v unlimited did the magic, and mysqld successfully started with an 80 GB buffer pool. Apparenly OpenSUSE defaults are…

Comment: Add an option to Fail on Innodb Initialize failure, Please ?

… recovery does not work Innodb will in most cases assert and crash, ie due to page read failed. Innodb fails to initialized and is disabled typically in case of configuration changes permission problems etc. Now even imagine if you have Innodb… and fall back scripts you can handle it by starting system with –skip-innodb to perform log shipping unless you use some…

Post: How to change innodb_log_file_size safely

… file and restart the server. If you do, InnoDB will refuse to start because the existing log files don’t match the… error message you’ll see in the client when InnoDB has refused to start due to log file size mismatch looks like… means that InnoDB hasn’t started, and MySQL is trying to access a table with the InnoDB storage engine, which is failing, of course…

Post: Optimizing InnoDB for creating 30,000 tables (and nothing else)

…in 15 minutes) hit that and the test is failed for taking too long. With libeatmydata the test… some InnoDB options! I’m going to try the obvious first: innodb-flush-method, sync-frm and innodb-flush… as infrequently as possible. With these options I started to get somewhere between 25-90 CREATE TABLE…

Post: Innodb Performance Optimization Basics

… MySQL with large Innodb database using typical Web workload what settings you would adjust and interestingly enough most people fail to come… for more details, check out detailed guide on tuning innodb buffer pool innodb_log_file_size – This depends on your recovery speed… on your application and default which is 8 is decent start innodb_flush_method=O_DIRECT Avoid double buffering and reduce swap…