June 18, 2013

Post: MySQL and the SSB - Part 2 - MyISAM vs InnoDB low concurrency

… about the importance of performance at low concurrency. The SSB The SSB tests a database’s ability to optimize queries for a…/mysql/mysql.sock user=justin innodb_buffer_pool_size=64G innodb_log_file_size=4G innodb_file_per_table innodb_stats_on_metadata=off innodb_file_format=barracuda innodb

Post: The small improvements of MySQL 5.6: Duplicate Index Detection

MySQL 5.6 brought: GTID-based replication, InnoDB Fulltext, Memcached integration, a more complete performance schema, online DDL and several other InnoDB and query optimizer

Post: Choosing a MySQL HA Solution - Post-Webinar Q&A

…with a virtual-machine approach, but for the optimal production deployment you want two identical physical boxes… want to use MySQL on top of something like that? I can’t imagine the performance being all… server up with –skip-grant-tables and insert a few rows into an InnoDB table, but trying to run…

Post: Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.30-30.2 now available

MySQL has fixed a number of performance bugs. (Alexey Kopytov) Drop table performance feature has been removed and its controlling variable innodb_lazy_drop_table… fixed #1163262 (Alexey Kopytov). When mysqldump was used with –innodb-optimize-keys and –no-data options, all secondary key definitions…

Post: Percona Server 5.5.30-30.2 rerelease fixes non-restart issue

MySQL has fixed a number of performance bugs. (Alexey Kopytov) Drop table performance feature has been removed and its controlling variable innodb_lazy_drop_table… fixed #1163262 (Alexey Kopytov). When mysqldump was used with –innodb-optimize-keys and –no-data options, all secondary key definitions…

Post: More on MySQL transaction descriptors optimization

innodb_write_io_threads = 8 innodb_io_capacity = 2000 max_connections=5000 table_open_cache=5000 query_cache_type=OFF performancemysql-user=root –mysql-db=sbtest8t1M –mysql-table-engine=INNODBmysql-socket=/tmp/mysql

Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.0.7 for MySQL available for download

… world’s only open-source, free MySQL hot backup software that performs non-blocking backups for InnoDB and XtraDB databases. This release is… XtraBackup has implemented support for the InnoDB Buffer Pool Preloading introduced in MySQL 5.6. Starting with MySQL 5.6 buffer pool dumps… are thousands of tables and slow IO then XtraBackup can spend a lot of time opening all the tablespaces. Optimization has been…

Post: Virident vCache vs. FlashCache: Part 2

… produce the most optimal results, I moved on to reviewing FlashCache performance versus that …mysql­-user=root –mysql­-socket=/tmp/mysql.sock ­­–mysql­-table­-engine=innodb ­­\ –oltp­-read­-only=off run The base MySQL configuration (configuration A) appears below: #####fixed innodb options innodb

Post: Is there room for more MySQL IO Optimization?

mysql> show table status like “post_channel” \G *************************** 1. row *************************** Name: post_channel Engine: InnoDBTABLE on this table which essentially performs data and indexes scan which will be reflective to large full table

Post: MySQL Indexing Best Practices: Webinar Questions Followup

… indexing space. Is this a reasonable performance optimization. (Keep in mind that the prefix…TABLE LINK (id1 int unsigned not null ,id2 int unsigned not null, PRIMARY KEY(id1,id2), KEY K(id2)) engine=INNODB; when table… also would note there are some MySQL optimizer restrictions in how well it can…