June 20, 2013

Post: Virident vCache vs. FlashCache: Part 2

… The cache devices were flushed to diskcache” test run as well using the base HDD MySQLcached (i.e., no special treatment of sequential writes… dirty-page ratios on device performance…cache_size = 0 query_cache_type = 0 ft_min_word_len = 4 thread_stack = 192K tmp_table_size = 64M server­id = 101 key

Post: What MySQL buffer cache hit rate should you target

… case global key hit ratio may be 99.99% but you would still have problems with key buffer efficiency….writes, how good was OS or SAN cache hit rate – something you would not see otherwise. The bad luck is – MySQL… of them make it to the disk. In some configurations OS cache may take all of them. In…

Post: Heikki Tuuri answers to Innodb questions, Part II

writes to the same page, then fewer disk writes are needed. But if your writedisk controller write-back cache does the same thing. PZ: First Indeed writes are slower with Flash disks… etc). But the ratio of RAM used for these non-mysql …/s HT: Strange, primary key equality searches should work…

Post: What to tune in MySQL Server after installation

… as MySQL DBAs or be involved with MySQL … incremental performance improvements. key_buffer_size – Very …size Very important for write intensive workloads especially for…disk but only flush it to OS cache. The log is still flushed to the disk…. For certain workloads cache hit ratio is lower than…

Post: MySQL 5.6 vs MySQL 5.5 and the Star Schema Benchmark

… 4 disk 7200RPM RAID 10 array with 512MB write-back cache  Star Schema Benchmark – Scale Factor 1 – Mysql 5.5…a lower buffer pool hit ratio during the MySQL 5.6 runs and MySQL 5.6.10 was doing… C_MktSegment varchar(10), KEY(C_Name), KEY(C_City), KEY(C_Region), KEY(C_Phone), KEY(C_MktSegment) ); DROP …

Post: Shard-Query EC2 images available

…gets over 16:1 compression ratio(compared to Innodb, 8:…. This frees disk to use on-disk temporary storage for … innodb-write-io-threads=4 join-buffer-size=16M key-…cache=16384 table-open-cache=128 thread-cache-size=32 thread-stack=256K tmp-table-size=64M transaction-isolation=READ-COMMITTED user=mysql

Post: SHOW INNODB STATUS walk through

MySQL thread id 9697561, query id 188161264 localhost root update insert into child values(2,2) Foreign key… For writes Innodb has to ensure data makes it to the disk – just passing it to OS cache is…pool. Finally you can see buffer pool hit ratio which measures buffer pool efficiency. 1000/1000 …