June 19, 2013

Post: Ultimate MySQL variable and status reference list

… amazing MySQL manual, especially the option and …Key_blocks_not_flushedblogpercona.commanual Key_blocks_unusedblogpercona.commanual Key_blocks_usedblogpercona.commanual key_buffer_sizeblogpercona.commanual key_cache_age_thresholdblogpercona.commanual key_cache_block_sizeblogpercona.commanual key

Post: How much overhead is caused by on disk temporary tables

… ? mysql> show global status like “key%”; +————————+———+ | Variable_name | Value | +————————+———+ | Key_blocks_not_flushed | 49361 | | Key_blocks_unused | 61201 | | Key_blocks_used | 49361 | | Key_read_requests | 4007329 | | Key_reads | 49361 | | Key_write…

Comment: MySQL Server Memory Usage

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Post: Faster MySQL failover with SELECT mirroring

… over in both directions. Aside from MySQL Cluster, which is more special-purpose,… a bunch of other benefits (non-blocking ALTER TABLE, for example). The benefit…. In reality, it can be completely unusable for a long time. To measure…of mk-query-digest. A simple key lookup ran in tens of milliseconds…

Post: Tuning InnoDB Concurrency Tickets

…oft-unused parameter innodb_concurrency_tickets that seems widely misunderstood… interesting scenario: foreign keys mysql> CREATE TABLE parent (id INT NOT NULL, -> PRIMARY KEY (id) -> ) ENGINE=INNODB; — …, then ALL of the PK lookups would be blocked until the 900-row-SELECT statements complete …

Post: SHOW INNODB STATUS walk through

…0 or 1 second they are pretty much unusable. To be honest I do not really …MySQL thread id 9697561, query id 188161264 localhost root update insert into child values(2,2) Foreign key…potentially needing them. Old stale uncommitted transactions may block purge process eating up resources. By looking at…