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 where…

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…

Comment: Version 1.0 of Percona Monitoring Plugins Released

Hi Baron, I see that the pmp-check-mysql-innodb plugin for Nagios leaves a lot of files (e.g. pmp-check-mysql-innodb.1196) in /tmp. Is that a desired feature? Thanks Daysen

Post: Testing STEC SSD MACH16 200GB SLC

… use sysbench fileio, 16KiB block size (to match workload from InnoDB, as this is primary usage for me), and recently I… async IO mode. There are two reasons for that. First, MySQL/InnoDB uses async writes, so this will emulate database load, and… it seems suitable to work with MySQL. I will publish sysbench oltp benchmarks running MySQL on RAID10 over 4 STEC MACH16 cards…

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…

Post: Webinar: MySQL and SSD

Just as a reminder – tomorrow, May-9, 2012, at 11am PDT I will be giving a free webinar “MySQL and SSD”. This is the same talk I gave on Percona Live MySQL Conference, so if you were there – you probably will find nothing new. Otherwise, you are welcome to join!

Post: Introducing Zend DBi as a MySQL Replacement on IBM i

… have heard that Oracle made the decision not to support MySQL for IBM i any longer. This is certainly understandable. However…. Everything works on Zend DBi just as it works on MySQL, with no need to rewrite applications, management scripts, or anything… own Percona Server variant of the MySQL server. We have a history of improving the MySQL server and finding and solving bugs…

Post: Zero-Downtime Schema Changes In MySQL

…_x table why ? The first question sounds like a potential MySQL bug. Are you sure this is really happening? I would…

Post: Training in London next week

I’m going to deliver MySQL Training next week (May 21-24) in London. This is …. You will also get a signed copy of High Performance MySQL 3rd edition as an attendee.

Post: Benchmarking single-row insert performance on Amazon EC2

MySQL configuration. MySQL Configuration I used Percona Server 5.5.22-55 for the tests. Following is the configuration that I used: ## InnoDB options innodb_buffer_pool_size = 55G innodb_log_file_size = 1G innodb_log_files_in_group = 4 innodb_buffer_pool_instances = 4 innodb_adaptive…