May 23, 2013

How to start a Percona XtraDB Cluster

Before version 5.5.28 of Percona XtraDB Cluster, the easiest way was to join the cluster using wsrep_urls in [mysqld_safe] section of my.cnf. So with a cluster of 3 nodes like this : node1 = 192.168.1.1 node2 = 192.168.1.2 node3 = 192.168.1.3 we defined the setting like this :

With that line above in my.cnf [...]

Percona Server 5.0.90-build21

Dear Community, Percona Server 5.0.90, release 21 is available for use. Comparing to the previous release it has following new features: The build is based on MySQL-5.0.90 Fixed bugs: Fixed Bug #539190 Percona-XtraDB package doesn’t allow libmysqlclient15off Fixed Bug #479106 mysql-5.0.87 + patches-5.0.86 compile fail in ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) Fixed tests mysql, mysql_upgrade, ssl* See [...]

Percona Server version 10

Dear Community, Today we are pleased to announce the release 10 of Percona Server with XtraDB storage engine. Since the previous release 9.1 there are following changes

Percona-XtraDB version 9.1

Dear Community, We are announcing today the new version 9.1 of XtraDB storage engine. The name of binaries has changed to Percona-XtraDB. It is applicable to all packages including RPM, DEB and tar.gz packages. New features in version 9.1: MySQL 5.1.43 is taken as the basis packages name changed to Percona-XtraDB Enabled support of SSL [...]

XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.6-9

Dear Community, As of today Release 9 of XtraDB storage engine is available. The release includes following new features: The release is base on 1.0.6 version of InnoDB plugin. MySQL 5.1.42 as a base release Separate purge thread and LRU dump is implemented (this feature was actually added in Release 8, but somehow it was [...]

FreeBSD tests

I’m continuing my experiments with different OS and today I tested FreeBSD 6.0 on my box. (more details about box and benchmark see here http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/06/13/quick-look-at-ubuntu-606/). Initially I was very pessimistic about FreeBSD, as results were (in transactions/sec, more is better. for comparison the results from Suse 10.0): InnoDB threads FreeBSD 6 Suse 10.0 Suse/ FreeBSD [...]