June 19, 2013

Post: How much memory Innodb locks really take ?

… … SELECT I decided to check is Innodb locks are relly as efficient in terms …Update_time: NULL Check_time: NULL Collation: utf8_general_ci Checksum: NULL Create_options: Comment: InnoDBmode which does not set any locks is going to be faster than any of locking modes, however we can see locking

Post: SELECT LOCK IN SHARE MODE and FOR UPDATE

… wrote nice article comparing locking hints in MySQL and SQL Server. In MySQL/Innodb LOCK IN SHARE MODE and SELECT FOR UPDATE are more than… is missing in Innodb locking.? In my oppinion few rather important peices missing in Locking implementation of Innodb are: Lock table Innodb can lock tables but it…

Post: INSERT INTO ... SELECT Performance with Innodb tables.

Innodb tables perform non locking reads, meaning unless you use some modifiers such as LOCK IN SHARE MODE or FOR UPDATE, SELECT statements will not lockinnodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlog option with caution. Note disabling binary logs is not enough to trigger relaxed locks. You have to set innodb_locks

Post: InnoDB's gap locks

… * FROM id > 1000 FOR UPDATE twice, you expect to get the same value twice. To accomplish that, InnoDB locks all index records found…` of table `test`.`t` trx id 72C lock_mode X locks rec but not gap RECORD LOCKS space id 19 page no 4 n… no need to create locks to prevent that from happening. 2- innodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlog = 1. Disables the gap locks except for foreign…

Post: ACTIVE with Locks – Now thats a problem !

…. It is JAVA applications which often run in AUTOCOMMIT=0 mode and do not explicitly commit transactions unless there were any… other query will try to lock the same rows it will have to wait… possibly until innodb_lock_wait_timeout elapses and when it completes with error. Second because if you have some updated rows Innodb will have…

Post: Innodb Table Locks

lock_mode X When updating the table it also gets “locked“, now with IX lock… this is because update needs to lock the rows in exclusive mode

Post: Ultimate MySQL variable and status reference list

innodb_flush_methodblogpercona.commanual innodb_force_recoveryblogpercona.commanual Innodb_have_atomic_builtinsblogpercona.commanual innodb_io_capacityblogpercona.commanual innodb_lock_wait_timeoutblogpercona.commanual innodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlogblogpercona.commanual innodb…commanual updatable_…

Post: SHOW INNODB STATUS walk through

… table `test/iz` trx id 0 42313620 lock_mode X locks rec but not gap Record lock, heap no 5 PHYSICAL RECORD: n_fields… to keep up with update rate, in this case difference between these values will also grow and innodb_max_purge_lag will… be “fetching rows”, “updating” and couple of other values. “Thread declared inside InnoDB 400″ means thread is running inside Innodb kernel and still…

Post: The perils of InnoDB with Debian and startup scripts

… statistics | select … | 6344 | user | | NULL | 6345 | user | Updating | update … | 6346 | user | Sorting result | insert … | 6351 |…mode exclusive number of readers 0, waiters flag 1 Last time read locked in file btr0sea.c line 746 Last time write lockedInnoDB 500 mysql tables in use 7, locked