May 25, 2012

Comment: How much memory Innodb locks really take ?

I am considering changing web-applications from VB6 to PhP/MySQL/Apache/InnoDB. Do you think you can show a program…

Comment: Testing Fusion-io ioDrive - now with driver 3.1

… benchmarks. They are very informative. One question: when you configure MySQL, what portion of it resides on the Fusion-IO card… am going to do some testing with a couple of MySQL servers with ioDrive2 cards (two in each) with the 3…

Post: Testing Fusion-io ioDrive

… PCIe cards. It really makes sense to test it under MySQL workload, but before getting to that, let me review the… wave-like pattern with throughput 350-400 MiB/sec. Random reads, async: Interesting to see that there is quite unstable throughput… usual for read-only workload to have such variety in throughput. It gets even more interesting when we go to read sync IO…

Comment: Make your file system error resilient

…Number of blocks reserved for root. [...] MySQL server is only one doing writes on this partition anyway it just would …

Comment: Testing Samsung SSD SATA 256GB 830 - not all SSD created equal

That depends, did you run the read-only case closely following the writes? GC normally runs at low …

Comment: Testing Samsung SSD SATA 256GB 830 - not all SSD created equal

Rodalpho, It can be related to garbage collection routines, but it can see it also in read-only case, which makes me puzzled. Garbage collector should not act that much in read-only.

Post: Load management Techniques for MySQL

One of the very frequent cases with performance problems with MySQL is what they happen every so often or certain times… need to know it is not MySQL problem, might be even not problem with your MySQL configuration, queries and hardware, even though… be a good idea. It also often helps with monopolizing replication thread. For example if I need to delete old data…

Comment: How to load large files safely into InnoDB with LOAD DATA INFILE

… I was reading the part about replication, can you help re-affirm this statement about replication? I’ve observed things differently in MySQL 5… log in general. But if it’s left on, the replication logic only replicates that “command” across the slaves, not the actual imported…

Post: Zero-Downtime Schema Changes In MySQL

… bin-log and thus isn’t replicated, why ? without any replication filters or relevant args, the replication breaks reliably on the __tmp_x table why ? The first question sounds like a potential MySQL

Post: Percona Server 5.1.62-13.3 released!

… available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.62, including all the bug fixes in it…-Based and Statement-Based replication. This was possible before by using tools like grep, awk and sed but only for SBR, because…