June 19, 2013

Post: Is your MySQL buffer pool warm? Make it sweat!

…master server has an issue. At Groupon, our standard MySQL database configuration follows this … percona-playback –mysql-host 127.0.0.1 –mysql-username playback –mysql-password PaSSwOrd –mysql-schema schema_name –query-… expected everything to be cached if we warmed the cache with the exact same …

Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit

…SaaS hostedname | Value | +———————————–+———————-+ | Aborted_clients | 205174 | | Aborted_connects | 29 | | Binlog_cache_disk_use | 0 | | Binlog_cacheissue‘…mysql> show global variables like ‘%table_size%’; +———————+———–+ | Variable_name

Comment: Is DNS the Achilles heel in your MySQL installation?

… also would note effects of host name resolve magnifies because of various bugs with host-cache in different MySQL versions which could cause more resolves… also make sense. Another related issue I should mention – I’ve seen some operating systems building MySQL with tcp wrappers – in this…

Post: Database problems in MySQL/PHP Applications

…$dbcon->query(“Select email from user where name=%s”,$name) – wrapper will detect query is being…formating, so database connection may become the issue. Caching should be good help in this case … with MySQL. There are many successful applications, using tens of thousands of tables per host and…

Post: Living with backups

…. The storage is handling reads issued by the system, but only…else? All modern systems usually use caching of whatever is being read …mysql | ssh backup@storage-host /root/backup-tools/write_backup.sh This will read /mnt/snapshot/mysql… the SCSI sub-system (devices named sda, sdb, sdc, etc.) that can …

Post: Content delivery system design mistakes

… performance problems (part MySQL related and part related to LAMP… has some of its own issues which need different treatment. …alive connections. Lighttpd is often named as faster alternative. It … Server side caching The benefit of server side caching is not …allows to configure different virtual host

Comment: Database problems in MySQL/PHP Applications

… email from user where name=%sā€,$name) – > wrapper will…database connection may become the issue. Caching should be > good help… > of tables per host and archiving great performance …cached lookup table however so you do > not have all these problems with loosing data etc. Read more in my > Why MySQL