May 25, 2012

Post: Percona Server 5.1.62-13.3 released!

… Server 5.1.62-13.3 on April 25, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.62, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.62-13.3 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona…

Post: Testing Intel SSD 520

MySQL 5.5 uses async IO for writes. Maybe 8 threads in the first graph is too much and we should go with 1… good question how does it affect MySQL performance, and I am going to run some MySQL workloads on these cards to understand… you are interested more in SSD and MySQL questions – I will be giving a webinary “MySQL and SSD” on May-9. It…

Post: Benchmarking single-row insert performance on Amazon EC2

… 10. Now let’s come to the MySQL configuration. MySQL Configuration I used Percona Server 5.5.22-55 for the tests. Following is…_group = 4 innodb_buffer_pool_instances = 4 innodb_adaptive_flushing = 1 innodb_adaptive_flushing_method = estimate innodb_flush_log_at_trx… was all about the configuration of the EC2 instance and MySQL. Now as far as the benchmark itself is concerned, I…

Comment: TPC-H Run on MySQL 5.1 and 6.0

Hi Peter, Re utilising multi cores, MySQL does claim to be capable of utilising multiple CPU cores. (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/faqs-general.html#qandaitem-B-1-1-8). Is that a different kind of assessment or different benchmarking? Cheers.

Post: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!

… fix, and MySQL 5.6 offers microsecond timestamp support, as well as a lot of optimizer improvements. Even the standard MySQL 5.5 offers pluggable…. MariaDB 5.3 isn’t the only exciting thing, however. MariaDB 5.3 is based on MySQL 5.1, but MariaDB 5.5 will be based on MySQL 5.5, so it will inherit a lot of the great improvements Oracle has made to the MySQL 5.5

Post: Multi Range Read (MRR) in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5

… time for MySQL 5.6, increase of 0.02s. But the query times for MariaDB 5.5 are greater than both MySQL 5.5 and MySQL 5.6 IO… Name MySQL 5.5 MySQL 5.6 MySQL 5.6 w/ read_rnd_bufer_size=4M MariaDB 5.5 MariaDB 5.5 w/ mrr_buffer_size=4M Created_tmp_disk_tables 1 1 1 1 1… Select_scan 1 1 1 1 1 Sort_scan 1 1 1 1 1 As you can see from the status counters above that both MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5 are reporting…

Post: Join Optimizations in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5

… for MySQL 5.6 becomes approximately equal to that of MySQL 5.5. MariaDB 5.5 is quite slow as compared to both MySQL 5.5 and MySQL 5.6. For MariaDB 5.5…read 4127318 6718351 6611675 6707882 5479445 5527245 Select_scan 1 1 1 1 1 1 Sort_scan 1 1 1 1 1 1 The first obvious improvement is shown by the high…

Post: Index Condition Pushdown in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5 and its performance impact

… preparation for the talk comparing the optimizer enhancements in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5. We are taking a look at and benchmarking… Index Condition Pushdown (ICP). Its available in both MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5 Now let’s take a look briefly at what… WHERE condition defined as: l_partkey = x and l_quantity >= 1 and l_quantity = 1 and l_quantity

Post: Percona Server 5.5.21-25.1 released!

… Server 5.5.21-25.1 on March 30, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.21, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.21-25.1 is now the current stable release in the 5.5… be found in the 5.5.21-25.1 milestone at Launchpad. We are doing another release based on MySQL 5.5.21 as we have…

Post: Troubleshooting MySQL Memory Usage

…but it is a lot larger problems with MySQL 5.5 with addition of user variables, stored procedures, prepared…engine=’memory’; +——————————-+ | sum(data_length+index_length) | +——————————-+ | 126984 | +——————————-+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) You …