June 19, 2013

Post: How Innodb Contention may manifest itself

… upgrading to Percona Server or newer MySQL version or doing application/architecture changes. Reducing number of competing threads (such as limiting number of… Linux process scheduler you can be looking at 500.000+ context switches which system can do. I would look at some 200.000 context switches

Post: SHOW INNODB STATUS walk through

… and doing unneeded context switches. The next section is about…thread id 1148250464, thread declared inside InnoDB 442 mysql tables in use 1, locked 0 MySQL threadthreads running queries. On Unix/Linux you will always see 4 helper threadschanges up to which has been flushed from buffer pool. Changes