I presented a webinar this week to give an overview of Tools and Techniques for Index Design. Even if you missed the webinar, you can register for it, and you’ll be emailed a link to the recording. I’d like to invite folks who are interested in tools for query optimization to attend the new Percona [...]
MySQL versions shootout
October 10, 2011 By 6 Comments
As part of work on “High Performance MySQL, 3rd edition”, Baron asked me to compare different MySQL version in some simple benchmark, but on decent hardware. So why not.
InnoDB Flushing: a lot of memory and slow disk
March 31, 2011 By 57 Comments
You may have seen in the last couple of weekly news posts that Baron mentioned we are working on a new adaptive flushing algorithm in InnoDB. In fact, we already have three such algorithms in Percona Server (reflex, estimate, keep_average). Why do we need one more? Okay, first let me start by showing the current [...]
Modeling MySQL Capacity by Measuring Resource Consumptions
March 8, 2011 By 1 Comment
There are many angles you can look at the system to predict in performance, the model baron has published for example is good for measuring scalability of the system as concurrency growths. In many cases however we’re facing a need to answer a question how much load a given system can handle when load is [...]
Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS
February 21, 2011 By 55 Comments
Is it a good idea to deploy your database into the cloud? It depends. I have seen it work well many times, and cause trouble at other times. In this blog post I want to examine cloud-based I/O. I/O matters a lot when a) the database’s working set is bigger than the server’s memory, or [...]
How InnoDB handles REDO logging
February 3, 2011 By 19 Comments
Xaprb (Baron) recently blogged about how InnoDB performs a checkpoint , I thought it might be useful to explain another important mechanism that affects both response time and throughput – The transaction log.
Why you should ignore MySQL’s key cache hit ratio
February 28, 2010 By 28 Comments
I have not caused a fist fight in a while, so it’s time to take off the gloves. I claim that somewhere around of 99% of advice about tuning MySQL’s key cache hit ratio is wrong, even when you hear it from experts. There are two major problems with the key buffer hit ratio, and [...]
MySQL Binaries Percona build10
December 11, 2008 By 12 Comments
We made new binaries for MySQL 5.0.67 build 10 which include next fixes: We addressed concerns about potential logging and statistics overhead, so now you can fully turn on / off query statistics for microslow patch and user statistics in runtime. Next variables were added:
1 2 3 4 5 6 | | slow_query_log | ON | | slow_query_log_file | /var/lib/mysql/slow_query.log | for compatibility with MySQL 5.1 and | userstat_running | OFF | to control gathering of user statistics. |
With both slow_query_log = OFF and userstat_running = OFF [...]
Percona build7 with latest patches
November 14, 2008 By 26 Comments
We made new binaries for MySQL 5.0.67 build 7 which include patches we recently announced. The -percona release includes:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | | innodb_check_defrag.patch | Session status to check fragmentation of the last InnoDB scan | 1.0 | Percona <info@percona.com> | GPL | The names are Innodb_scan_* | | userstatsv2.patch | SHOW USER/TABLE/INDEX statistics | V2 | Google | GPL | Added INFORMATION_SCHEMA.*_STATISTICS | | show_patches.patch | SHOW PATCHES | 1.0 | Jeremy Cole | N/A | | | innodb_io_patches.patch | Cluster of past InnoDB IO patches | 1.0 | Percona | GPL | This patch contains fixed (control_flush_and_merge_and_read, control_io-threads, adaptive_flush) | | innodb_show_hashed_memory.patch | Adds additional information of InnoDB internal hash table memories in SHOW INNODB STATUS | 1.0 | Percona <info@percona.com> | GPL | | | innodb_io_pattern.patch | Information schema table of InnoDB IO counts for each datafile pages | 1.0 | Percona <info@percona.com> | GPL | INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_IO_PATTERN | | microsec_process.patch | Adds INFOMATION_SCHEMA.PROCESSLIST with TIME_MS column | 1.0 | Percona <info@percona.com> | GPL | | | innodb_locks_held.patch | Add locks held, remove locked records in SHOW INNODB STATUS | 1.0 | Baron Schwartz <baron@xaprb.com> | GPL | Bug #29126 fix | | microslow_innodb.patch | Extended statistics in slow.log | 1.1 | Percona <info@percona.com> | GPL | | | mysqld_safe_syslog.patch | Patch allows redirect output of error.log to syslog-ng | 1.0 | Percona <info@percona.com> | GPL | Ported from Debian | | innodb_fsync_source.patch | Information of fsync callers in InnoDB | 1.0 | Google | GPL | | | innodb_show_bp.patch | show innodb buffer pool content | 1.0 | Percona <info@percona.com> | GPL | | |
and -percona-highperf release additionaly includes
1 2 | | split_buf_pool_mutex_fixed_optimistic_safe.patch | InnoDB patch to fix buffer pool scalability | 1.0 | Yasufumi Kinoshita | BSD | | | innodb_rw_lock.patch | Fix of InnoDB rw_locks | 1.0 | Yasufumi Kinoshita | BSD | |
You can download RPMs for RedHat / CentOS 4.x and 5.x for x86_64, binaries, sources and patches there
How fast can MySQL Process Data
April 9, 2008 By 3 Comments
Reading Barons post about Kickfire Appliance and of course talking to them directly I learned a lot in their product is about beating data processing limitations of current systems. This raises valid question how fast can MySQL process (filter) data using it current architecture ? I decided to test the most simple case – what [...]
