Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster on November 15th, 2012. Binaries are available from downloads area or from our software repositories. Features: Percona XtraDB Cluster has ported Twitter’s MySQL NUMA patch. This patch implements improved NUMA support as it prevents imbalanced memory allocation across NUMA nodes. Number of binlog files [...]
Announcing Percona Server 5.5.27-29.0
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.27-29.0 on October 11th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.27, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.27-29.0 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]
Percona XtraDB Cluster reference architecture with HaProxy
This post is a step-by-step guide to set up Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) in a virtualized test sandbox. I used Amazon EC2 micro instances, but the content here is applicable for any kind of virtualization technology (for example VirtualBox). The goal is to give step by step instructions, so the setup process is understandable and [...]
Percona testing: Quick test clusters with kewpie!
The announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster seems to have generated a fair bit of interest : ) Although the documentation contains more formal instructions for setting up a test cluster, I wanted to share a quick way to set up an ad-hoc cluster on a single machine to help people play with this (imho) rather [...]
Percona Server 5.1.59-13.0
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.59-13.0 on October 15, 2011 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.59, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.59-13.0 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free, all the [...]
Percona Server 5.5.16-22.0
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.16-22.0 on October 14, 2011 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.16, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.16-22.0 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free, all the [...]
Make your file system error resilient
One of the typical problems I see setting up ext2/3/4 file system is sticking to defaults when it comes to behavior on errors. By default these filesystems are configured to Continue when error (such as IO error or meta data inconsistency) is discovered which can continue spreading corruption. This manifests itself in a worst way [...]
Percona Server 5.5.10 (Release Candidate)
Percona Server release 5.5.10-20.1 is now available for download. This is a release candidate for the Percona Server 5.5 series. In addition to MySQL 5.5.10 now being the base version, here are the changes that have been made since Percona Server beta release 5.5.8-20.0:
Replication of MEMORY (HEAP) Tables
Some Applications need to store some transient data which is frequently regenerated and MEMORY table look like a very good match for this sort of tasks. Unfortunately this will bite when you will be looking to add Replication to your environment as MEMORY tables do not play well with replication.
Percona Server 5.1.50-rel12.1
Dear Community, Percona Server version 5.1.50-rel12.1 RC is now available for download. Functionality Added or Changed Percona Server 5.1.50-rel12.1 is now based on MySQL 5.1.50. New Features Added: innodb_lru_dump_restore – Implemented automatic dumping of the buffer pool at specified intervals. innodb_buffer_pool_shm – Implemented option ”innodb_buffer_pool_shm_checksum”; when enabled, shared memory buffer pool is checksum validated. This [...]

